scholarly journals RELIGIOUS METAPHORS IN NEWSPAPER SPORTS DISCOURSE: FUNCTIONAL ASPECT (ON THE MATERIAL OF BRITISH NEWSPAPERS)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1300-144
Author(s):  
Natalia Solovieva ◽  
Veronika Katermina
Keyword(s):  
Effective Communication ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Functional Aspect ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
Daily Telegraph ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Guardian

The article is devoted to the functional aspect of religious metaphors in newspaper sports discourse. The material under analysis is English religious metaphors which are studied in quality and popular British newspapers (The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror). According to the traditional point of view, modern research of sports discourse is inseparable from the analysis of media texts, as media do not only cover sports events most effectively but also determine their assessment. Metaphors are considered to provide informative accuracy necessary for effective communication, they create images that affect the attitude of the reader to events covered by the media.

CORPUS ANALYSIS OF COLLOCATIONS WITH HEALTH IN THE MEDIA TEXTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (15) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Olga Sivaieva
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Linguistic Means

The media is an influential tool in shaping public’s opinion about HEALTH and its basic components. As this topic has been of great importance lately, the corpus study of media texts with HEALTH can reveal verbal means of how this lemma is depicted by journalists as well as what urgent social concerns are connected with HEALTH and what issues reader are aware of. The research is aimed at studying collocations with HEALTH in The Guardian and The Mirror newspapers, focusing on the comparative analysis of them presented in the broadsheet and tabloid. Sketch Engine has been used to investigate the lemma HEALTH in both newspapers, which helps to disclose the linguistic means used to outline the concept HEALTH. The findings of the study prove that despite the use of modifiers and verbs with HEALTH common for both newspapers (e.g., mental, physical, public; improve, protect, affect), the Mirror presents a wider choice of collocations with HEALTH compared to The Guardian, whereas the lexeme HEALTH is more frequently used in the latter ‒ 2,367.84 per million as to 1,615.61 per million in the first one. Furthermore, the tabloid presents a larger range of health subjects while the broadsheet displays a narrower area of the topic with a more conservative point of view.

scholarly journals The discursive construction of Romanian immigration in the British media: Digitized press vs. Television documentaries

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Florentina Cheregi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Television Use ◽  
The Media ◽  
British Press ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Guardian

<p>This paper looks at how the media – particularly the British press and television – frames the issue of Romanian immigrants in Great Britain, in the context of the freedom of movement for workers in the European Union. The study focuses on the frames employed by the British journalists in constructing anti-immigration discourses in the digital and the TV sphere, comparatively. This study analyzes the stereotypes about Romanian people used in two British media formats and the way in which they affect Romania’s country image overseas. Using a mixed research approach, combining framing analysis (Entman, 1993) with critical discourse analysis (Van Dijk, 1993), and dispositif analysis (Charaudeau, 2005) this article investigates 271 news items from three of the most read newspapers in the UK (The Guardian, Daily Mail and The Independent), published online during January 2013 – March 2014. Also, the paper analyzes three film documentaries from BBC (Panorama – The Romanians are Coming? – BBC1, The Truth About Immigration – BBC2 and The Great Big Romanian invasion – BBC World News). The analysis shows that the British press and television use both similar and different frames to coverage Romanian migrants. The media also infer the polarization between “Us” (the British media) and “Them” (the Romanian citizens).</p>

scholarly journals The images of politicians in the language consciousness performed in the English and German newspaper and journalistic discourses

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 03022
Author(s):  
Denis Lapenkov ◽  
Olga Oleinik ◽  
Olga Utkina
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Deep Meaning ◽  
The Media ◽  
German Newspaper ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Modern Era

In the modern era of mass politicization of the public consciousness of the media, in addition to forming an opinion on political events, it also performs the function of manipulating the public consciousness. Of particular interest in this influence are the images of leading politicians. Images of politicians in the media influence the formation of opinions about the political situation in the country and in the world as a whole. In order to analyze the images of politicians in the media and to identify the deep meaning in the presentation of images of politicians, the authors of the article turn to text materials of electronic versions of social and political newspapers and magazines (The Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Focus, Zeit, Spiegel), using the conceptual method analysis and contextual analysis method. The presentation of images of politicians reveals value meanings of sympathy and antipathy. The authors of the article attempt to identify moments in the representation of the images of politicians, where they generate additional meaning that has an emotional impact on public opinion.

scholarly journals “Immigration, that’s what everyone’s thinking about …”

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 651-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Political Correctness ◽  
The Core ◽  
Daily Telegraph ◽  
Open Borders ◽  
Core Country ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
The Eu

Abstract This article examines the 2016 British EU referendum and the domestic debates through citizens’ voices in the media, specifically on the emotions and narratives, on The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Express, the week before the referendum. British citizens felt, in their words, “bullied because of [their] political correctness” and pointed their anger and dissatisfaction against the EU (and Merkel’s) “obsession for open borders”. The analysis underlines that these emotions and narratives, combining immigration and sovereignty, have remained embedded in the post-Brexit days, and go back not just to Billig’s banal nationalism (1995), but show that voting Leave represented respect towards true British values, the “core country” as conceptualised by Taggart (2000). Powellism (Hampshire 2018) and Wright’s “encroanchment” of Englishness (2017), and the analysis on the immigration narrative explain how anti-immigration and sovereignty discourse is persisting and is influencing the social and political relation of Britain with Europe.

scholarly journals (De)Legitimizing Surveillance Revelations through the Media Lenses

MaRBLe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Czabanowska
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
News Values ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Comparative Manner

This research interprets and explains how and why the British newspapers such as The Guardian, the Daily Mail, and The Independent, have (de)legitimized the NSA Snowden revelations of 2013. The study uses critical discourse analysis to understand what media framing techniques are used by the media sources and how can they be explained by looking at the core ideologies and news values of the newspapers. The corpus used for the analysis includes ninety articles in total, consisting of thirty per newspaper. The frames are identified using Entman’s (1993; 2005) definitions of media framing. They are then explained using the (de)legitimisation techniques by Van Leuuwen and Wodak (1999) in a comparative manner. The analysis reveals that The Guardian focuses on deligitimising surveillance and justifying their decision to cooperate with Edward Snowden on the basis of legality, public interest, morality, and power abuse. The Daily Mail legitimises surveillance using arguments concerning security, counterterrorism, and citizen protection while concentrating on Snowden’s personal life, love, lifestyle and character. The Independent follows an informative narrative to raise awareness about the scandal through a politically autonomous stance. It allows the readership to shape their opinion on the subject by presenting them with contra and pro surveillance arguments.  

scholarly journals (De)Legitimizing Surveillance Revelations through the Media Lenses

MaRBLe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Czabanowska
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
News Values ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Comparative Manner

This research interprets and explains how and why the British newspapers such as The Guardian, the Daily Mail, and The Independent, have (de)legitimized the NSA Snowden revelations of 2013. The study uses critical discourse analysis to understand what media framing techniques are used by the media sources and how can they be explained by looking at the core ideologies and news values of the newspapers. The corpus used for the analysis includes ninety articles in total, consisting of thirty per newspaper. The frames are identified using Entman’s (1993; 2005) definitions of media framing. They are then explained using the (de)legitimisation techniques by Van Leuuwen and Wodak (1999) in a comparative manner. The analysis reveals that The Guardian focuses on deligitimising surveillance and justifying their decision to cooperate with Edward Snowden on the basis of legality, public interest, morality, and power abuse. The Daily Mail legitimises surveillance using arguments concerning security, counterterrorism, and citizen protection while concentrating on Snowden’s personal life, love, lifestyle and character. The Independent follows an informative narrative to raise awareness about the scandal through a politically autonomous stance. It allows the readership to shape their opinion on the subject by presenting them with contra and pro surveillance arguments.  

scholarly journals INTERTEXTUALITY IN MEDIA TEXTS OF GENRE OF INTERVIEW WITH POLITICS. ARTICLE 1

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 19-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
LARYSA SHULINOVA
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Evaluative Attitude ◽  
Media Texts

The article deals with modern interviews with Ukrainian politicians from the point of view of the existence of precedent intertexts and their functions. Intertextuality induces the recipient to thinking activity: to determine the existence of an intertextual text, to identify it, to understand the newly created meaning, to evaluate it, to perceive / not to perceive, that is, to compare with the values’ scale and possible intellectual compromise with the world's reflection and the pragmatic purpose of the author. The basic groups of precedent phenomena are defined: precedent texts and precedent situations, which are analyzed in more detail, precedent names, precedent statements. The main sources of precedent texts in interviews with politicians are legislative documents that are logical from the point of view and the thematic specifics of texts and communicative strategies in the media representatives of the political community. In the analyzed interviews precedent scenarios are presented through direct nominations and indirectly through the description of phenomena, facts, details that are associated for most respondents with a particular situation, with a certain emotional/evaluative attitude that the communicants support or attempt through comments, refinements, refutation, ridiculing, etc. change to the opposite, ie to form strategically defined beliefs.

scholarly journals SEMANTIC PROSODY OF THE LEMMA VACCINE IN THE MEDIA TEXTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 42-46
Author(s):  
O. Sivaeva
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Semantic Prosody ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Contextual Meaning

This paper discusses the results of the corpus-based analysis of the semantic prosody of collocations with VACCINE in the broadsheet ‘The Guardian’. The corpus has been processed with the help of Sketch Engine. Text passages containing collocations with VACCINE have been interpreted in order to state the prosody mode of the collocation in the context. The study mostly pays attention to the nouns modified by VACCINE as most frequently used in the me­dia texts. The dictionary definition of VACCINE defines it as a word with positive semantic prosody. The discourse analysis demonstrates that collocations containing the lemma VACCINE can have positive, negative or neutral semantic colouring, which depends on the contextual meaning of the analyzed passage and which is also based on the semantic prosody mode of other words in the passage, which actually designates and presupposes the mode of the collocations in question. The nouns supply, safety, mask, uptake, access, protection, production, certification used in ‘The Guardian’ articles, having positive semantic prosody in the pattern noun + VACCINE, in general create a positive metaphorical image and defense from Covid-19. However, the nouns hesitancy, misinformation, avail­ability and skepticism possessing negative semantic prosody, are mostly used to describe people’s unwillingness to get vaccinated and their doubts about the effectiveness of the procedure. Collocations with type, mechanism, distribution, usage and VACCINE have a neutral semantic prosody, which shows that such collocations are used in text passages in the surrounding of neither positive nor negative words and the whole passage serves as a state­ment of some facts without being evaluated.

scholarly journals The Tale of Two Newspapers: Perceptions and Representations of Iranian International Relations Discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Ahmad Nazari
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Guardian

One of the research topics which intrigues researchers in the subject areas of applied linguistics, international relations and politics is political discourse and the way it is perceived and represented in the media. Researchers have analysed and interpreted the political and international relations discourse of various politicians and diplomats in different countries. By the same token, Iran, as a country with an influence on the political issues of the Middle East and a role in international dynamics and trends, has devoted a plethora of research to itself where researchers have examined and critiqued the international and foreign policies of Iran in various periods of time, in relation to various countries and in connection with various political and international events and situations. However, a search carried out by the present researcher showed that there are not many publications on how the British mass media, newspapers in particular, perceive and represent the Iranian government’s international relations discourse. To address this lacuna, a corpus of news stories and reports extracted from two renowned British newspapers, the Guardian and Daily Mail, was analysed by adopting a double hermeneutic content analysis approach. The results suggest that the two newspapers, in spite of being famous for having polar political views, seem to have similar perceptions and representations of the above discourse. The study also provides directions for further research in other contexts. 

scholarly journals Use of science in British newspapers’ narratives of climate change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Laura Ruiu ◽  
Massimo Ragnedda
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
Greenhouse Effect ◽  
Framing Theory ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Daily Telegraph ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Guardian

This paper investigates the use of science in British newspapers’ narratives of climate change between 1988 and 2016. It is based on the analysis of eight newspapers and their Sunday and online versions (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Daily Express, The Sun, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent). We used the keywords “climate / climatic change”, “warm / warming” and “greenhouse / greenhouse effect” to retrieve the articles from the Nexis / Lexis database. To identify the articles with a specific focus on climate change, we included only those containing the keywords in the headline (9789 items). Framing theory helps interpret the process of construction of the “threat” through science by showing a tendency towards scientific consensus for the centre / left-leaning newspapers, and an instrumental use of consensus for the centre-right. These findings are useful for both scientists and policymakers interested in understanding how climate narratives can promote delay in action on climate change.

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