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Изражавања ауторског става у уводницима и онлајн коментарима на руском језику
AUTHORIAL STANCE EXPRESSED WITH GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES IN EDITORIALS AND ONLINE COMMENTS IN RUSSIAN S u m m a r y This paper describes major patterns of register variation between editorials and online news comments based on the use of a wide range of lexico-grammatical structures that express stance in Russian. While applying the methodology of Biber (Biber 2006), the objective of the paper is to make a distinction between the two registers that is related to the occurrence of the structures, such as modals, adverbs, verbs, and adjectives with certain types of semantic meaning within a corpus of 10,000 words from each register. The results show that there are important register differences in the particular kinds of stance meanings that are expressed in editorials and online comments. The focus of editorials is on the author’s perspective that characterizes certain actions or events, and to a lesser extent on speech acts and on anticipatory aspects of texts, while the focus of online comments is on the epistemic and directive dimensions of stance.