MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF TRAVEL NOTES AS A TEXT TYPE (BASED ON GERMAN TEXTS)

The article presents travel notes in German and their linguistic stylistic features within the context of a typological analysis based on approach textological school which studies diversity text types.
 purpose study is to determine main as type.
 Research material: published press, well posted Internet portals. As part methods comparative descriptive were used, included classification, interpretation, generalization. also involves elements etymological, definitional, component contextual analysis.
 Results. texts perform both informative appellative functions, make it possible define transitional type texts. Despite relative freedom that author has creating texts, still have certain structure. definition characteristics allows us conclude they are specific phenomenon combines not only various speech components, but other types texts.
 Practical implications. theoretical significance lies description type, features. research material can be used for further this text. data obtained courses seminars lexicology stylistics when teaching language.