Information Model as an Instrument for the Analysis of News Discourse
Under the conditions of information society special importance is attached to a systematic and consistent study of the news texts, which are regarded as the pinnacle of all media discourse, its basic structure around which all media content is organized. At present the study of news texts applies a wide range of different methods traditionally used for the analysis of socially and culture bound discourse – linguistic, sociological, discursive, contentanalysis etc. However the method specifically designed for the analysis of the news has not been fully described yet. To fill in this gap the author offers to use “the information model” that was designed within the framework of media linguistics – a relatively new but already firmly established branch of language studies. The article focuses on the use of information model for the analysis of news discourse, specifically dealing with all its elements – selection of facts, interpretation, shaping images, forming stereotypes and cultural-ideological context.