Genre Specificity of Contemporary Journalistic Automotive Reviews

Abstract

The article examines the genre-specific features of contemporary journalistic automotive reviews, which combine informative, evaluative, and persuasive functions and represent an important segment of media discourse. The relevance of the study is determined by the growing influence of expert reviews on consumer behaviour and the need for structurally organized texts in a digital environment characterized by high information load. The purpose of the research is to identify the key structural components of journalistic automotive reviews, the particularities of textual organization, and the interaction between technical specifications and subjective driving impressions. Analysis of English-language journalistic automotive reviews corpus demonstrates a stable compositional model of the genre, which includes an introductory contextual section, competitor comparison, interior and exterior assessment, a technical block, driving impressions, and a concluding summary with factual data. Special attention is paid to logical cohesion and content structuring. The driving impressions section illustrates the transformation of technical information into the experience of driving, which forms the basis of the evaluative component of the review. The conclusions emphasize that the effectiveness of the genre is grounded in the interaction of technical accuracy, discursive organization, and expert interpretation, which together ensure both accessibility and authority of the text for a broad readership.