Abstract

The article is devoted to the temporal pattern of antonymic attraction in Ukrainian journalism at the beginning of the 21st century. It was found that synonymic, paronymic and antonymic attractions are kinds of lexical attraction. The mechanism of antonymic attraction is based on the fact that there is attraction among linguistic units, based on their semantic similarity. The temporal pattern is considered. It appears in the transformation from linear and cyclical time. Paradigmatic and syntagmatic types of the functioning of antonymic attraction were analyzed. Special attention was paid to the semantics and functions of antonymic attractants in Ukrainian newspapers. In the conclusion, the function of the temporal pattern of antonymic attraction in journalistic style is discussed. It is an important indication of the Ukrainian journalistic style.