A tendency to language democratization in the qualitative press of the beginning of the third millennium
The paper discusses the tendency to language democratization in the qualitative press where there is the contamination of the language means belonging to different styles of communication. The use of stylistically lowered elements of a slang and popular speech causes expressivity and assessment, promoting manifestation of the author's I of the journalist who possesses stylistic competence and sense of proportion. Emergence of other style elements in analytical texts of the newspaper journalism focused on book and written speech, is a steady tradition in modern mass media.