Metatext of modern radio broadcasting (using the program "Zahar's Keys" on Radio Sputnik as an example)

The subject of the study is the features that distinguish the metatext of radio broadcasts from written metatext. Metatext is understood as the text embedded within the main text, through which the speaker helps the listener navigate and understand the main text. The aim of the work is to identify the distinguishing characteristics of the metatext of modern radio broadcasts and to explain the reasons for the emergence of these features. This article analyzes the metatext of contemporary radio broadcasts based on the texts of the program "Zahar's Keys" on Radio Sputnik. The author of the program is the well-known writer and journalist, public figure, military officer, and lieutenant colonel Zahar Prilepin. The program "Zahar's Keys" on Radio Sputnik is a series of author's broadcasts. The title "Zahar's Keys" is based on the metaphor of a key as a means of providing "the opportunity for understanding something." The methods used in this work include general scientific methods of observation and comparison, as well as linguistic methods of semantic, pragmatic, and contextual analysis. The novelty of the study lies in its explanation of the features of the metatext of radio broadcasts as oral conversational text, which includes elements of improvisation. The conclusions are as follows: 1) the indicators of the beginning and end of the radio broadcast blend with greeting and farewell formulae; the framing metatext includes the program's title and the names of its hosts; 2) the indicator of a break between parts of the program includes a call for listeners to continue listening after the break; 3) the prospective metatext includes exchanges of words between one participant and another; 4) the retrospective metatext provided by one of the hosts refers to remarks made by other hosts of the program and may include evaluations of these remarks or contain the pronoun "we," uniting all hosts; 5) the host of the program may interrupt colleagues and make insertions into their text; 6) the emphasis of the listener's attention on the most significant parts of the text is expressed through impersonal sentences, statements in the first person, and imperative sentences in the second person; 7) due to the oral improvisational nature of the text, the stated number of parts is not realized. Thus, the metatext of radio broadcasts significantly differs from written metatext. This is due to two factors: 1) the form of the radio broadcast as a conversation; 2) the oral nature of the text.