The post-fact world in a post-truth era: the productivity and emergent meanings of the prefix post- in contemporary English

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-412
Author(s):  
EWELINA PRAŻMO
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Semantic Extension ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Original Definition ◽  
American Press ◽  
Radial Model

This article proposes a cognitive linguistic analysis of the prefix post- in contemporary English by looking into the possible motivations of the semantic changes which have led to the increasing applicability of the prefix. The prefix's productivity in combinations such as post-truth and post-fact calls for expanding its original definition. These recent combinations go beyond the main two established meanings of the prefix, namely the spatial and the temporal meaning. In order to explain this semantic extension a radial model of categorisation is proposed. Offering an analysis of contexts in which the prefix post- is used in British and American press coverage, especially in relation to the 2016 UK Brexit referendum and the 2016 US presidential campaign, the article claims that the appearance of the prefix in new combinations is motivated by the need to describe the changing reality (especially in political and media discourse).

scholarly journals Beauty And The Beast From A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective: Animal Metaphors For Women In Serbian And Romanian

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNAMARIA KILYENI ◽  
NADEŽDA SILAŠKI
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
Beauty And The Beast ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Metaphor Theory

Abstract Under the theoretical wing of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, we present a contrastive cognitive and linguistic analysis of the women are animals metaphor as used in Romanian and Serbian. Our main aim is to establish whether the names of the same animals are used in the two languages to conceptualise women and their various characteristics (particularly physical appearance and character traits), or alternatively, whether the two languages exhibit any linguistic or conceptual differences in this regard.

scholarly journals «Beer Hall Putsch» in the US press assessment

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-196
Author(s):  
Margarita Igorevna Tulusakova
Keyword(s):  
Press Reaction ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Us ◽  
American Press ◽  
Beer Hall

The paper studies the problem of the American press reaction to an attempted coup in Germany in 1923. The reasons for the Beer Hall Putsch from the point of view of the press were studied. The author shows the process of information accumulation about the putsch, the role and attitude of various representatives of the US press to it, and the international reaction to the Nazism. The role of Hitler in the coup attempt is analyzed. The author proves that there was direct influence of large American newspapers chief editors opinions on the information about the coup in Germany. The analysis of the US press reaction to the Beer Hall Putsch shows that American newspapers during the first days of the events observed these events closely. Moreover, the trends typical for the central press (coverage of international events, desire for analytics and forecasts) were also characteristic of small local periodicals. The Beer Putsch information support shows that in 1923 the US press was clearly divided in assessments about the most important issue: to support the rebels or to condemn them. The paper shows how the image of the Beer Hall Putsch influenced the policy of aggressors pacification in the future.

The Iran Deal in Context: American Press Coverage of Iran from Coup to the Islamic Republic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Mehdi Semati ◽  
William P. Cassidy ◽  
Mehrnaz Khanjani
Keyword(s):  
Press Coverage ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
American Press

Triangulating the GRID: A corpus-based cognitive linguistic analysis of five Greek emotion terms1

2013 ◽  
pp. 437-448
Author(s):  
Marina Terkourafi ◽  
Efthymia C. Kapnoula ◽  
Penny Panagiotopoulou ◽  
Athanassios Protopapas
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic

scholarly journals Graphic-Stylistic Expressivity in Media Discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01151
Author(s):  
Marina Yu. Ryabova
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Educational Purpose ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Expressive Function ◽  
On Line ◽  
Communicative Context ◽  
The Guardian

The article deals with the analysis of graphic-stylistic means of the language, such as punctuation, functioning in modern English based on the language material of literary and media texts (on-line site of The Guardian). The aim of the paper is to reveal some actual functional characteristics of punctuation marks compared with their traditional syntactic and stylistic usage. The linguistic analysis is conducted within the methodology of semantic and syntactic interpretation and description. The following new functional usage of punctuation marks is described: the playing (ludic) function (creating an ironic, comic or parody effect in communication) and the expressive function emphasizing the semantics of an element in a communicative context. The importance of the undertaken analysis is to show the necessity of studying the English punctuation functions from the point of view of modern theory of communication and media linguistics as well as with an empirical educational purpose of teaching the English grammar.

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