scholarly journals Military Media Discourse of Newspapers during Siege of Sevastopol in 1941-1942

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
Yuri Ershov ◽  
Tatiana Cherepanova
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Military Discourse ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Military

The article presents the results of a research into military discourse via media texts about the Siege of Sevastopol. The topicality is determined by the insufficiency of studies of newspaper discourse of that period due to scarcity of available original materials. The novelty of the research is explained by introduction of new academic data about the characteristics of «The Krasnyi Chernomorets» paper, whose reporters worked at the battle-lines of Sevastopol offensive till the end of the siege. The characteristics in the focus of the authors’ interest are the spirit and the ideological implications of the media texts, as well as methods of all-out mobilization via the newspapers, and stylistic means of heroics in descriptions of the fighters’ and homefront workers’ behavior. The key method of study is a content analysis of the available original newspaper publications photocopied in the archive of rare editions. The aim was to select articles describing feats or heroic achievements of the military men and citizens of Sevastopol. Having studied hundreds of texts, the authors have also found differences in the set of expressive means used by journalists and reporters of the local newspapers and other media. One of the inferences suggests that periodical press as a social institute features a mechanism of mild self-regulation that enables journalists, in the time of a crisis, to reprogram their functions in order to produce heroics and encourage public consolidation.

scholarly journals Functional Features of Onomastic Units in the Military Discourse of the Donbass Conflict

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-250
Author(s):  
Valery A. Amirov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Military Discourse ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
The Media ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
The Military

The article explores the modalities and features of onomastic units in the media coverage of the Eastern Ukraine military conflict in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Based on large empirical data of printed and online publications in Russian and Ukrainian media reporting on the hostilities in Donbass extensively for several years, the author has collected, classified, and analyzed the corpus of onomastic units of the military media discourse. These include place names, such as Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), Luganda, Donbabwe, Debaltsevo pocket, Ilovaysk pocket, ORDLO (“separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions”), Novorossiya, “Odessa Khatyn,” as well as the nicknames of field commanders that have become deeply associated with the conflict — Motorola, Bes, Givi. The study examines functional aspects of proper names usage in the media, and their role in shaping a general picture of the Donbass armed conflict for the readers. A special emphasis is made on the weight of onomastic units (militaronyms, toponyms, and anthroponyms) as constructive elements of the military discourse in Eastern Ukraine. In this regard, the presented analysis and its results can contribute to further studies of the media discourse related to armed conflicts of various etiologies and intensities.

IDEOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF NATIONAL DREAM IN THE MEDIA DISCOURSE OF THE PRC AND THE USA

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
Oleg I. Kalinin ◽  
◽  
Alina D. Suzen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Russian Linguistics ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Two Stages

This article is devoted to the study of the national dream ideologeme in the Chinese and US media. The term “ideologeme” is considered as a lingvo-cognitive phenomenon, which is a complex socio-political concept that includes an ideological component. The authors make a brief analysis of the history of the study of ideologeme in Russian linguistics. The practical part of the study consists of two stages: first, emphasis is placed on extralinguistic factors of the national dream ideology formation for each of the sociocultures, and second, the data obtained are refined through a content analysis of the corpora of media texts collected by the authors on the topic of national dream. The results allow us to speak of two types of national dreams revealing significant differences between the formation of the image of a national dream in the minds of people.

Constructing Public Opinion and Manipulating Symbols: China's Press Cover-age of the Student Movement in 1989

1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 412-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo-Qiang Zhang ◽  
Sidney Kraus
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
Tiananmen Square ◽  
The Press ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Military

This content analysis of Chinese newspapers before and after the Tiananmen Square protest examines the symbolic representation of the Student Movement of 1989 in China. The study reveals that top leaders manipulated symbols given to the media and that these symbols rigorously highlighted the dominant ideology of the Chinese Communist Party and isolated the movement participants. Officials attempted to legitimize the military suppression of the movement. The press construction of public opinion echoed the hegemonic process created and maintained by the party structure.

Issue Emergence, Evolution of Controversy, and Implications for Competitive Framing

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Franklin Fowler ◽  
Sarah E. Gollust ◽  
Amanda F. Dempsey ◽  
Paula M. Lantz ◽  
Peter A. Ubel
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Hpv Vaccine ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
The Media ◽  
External Events ◽  
Insight Into

Although scholarship on competitive framing acknowledges that framing is a dynamic process in which the early stages may matter most, very little research has focused on the dynamics of issue emergence. In this article, we draw on several literatures to develop theories for how controversy related to new issues will emerge and expand in news coverage. Through a comprehensive content analysis of 101 local newspapers across the fifty U.S. states, we explore the dynamic and evolving process wherein a new issue—the HPV vaccine—emerged into public discourse and a legislative debate over school requirements for vaccination began. We find that coverage of controversy is a function of proximity, driven primarily by events within a state, although external events also influence local coverage. We also find that the legislative discussion in the media did not necessarily start out as controversial, but as the issue evolved, we observe a large increase in the proliferation of both actors taking positions and the types of arguments made to influence debate. The findings yield important insight into issue emergence with implications for how future research might test competing frames to better understand how the presentation of controversy in the mass media affects public opinion.

scholarly journals The Lingual and Pragmatic Characteristics of Occasionalisms in the American Media Discourse

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 58-63
Author(s):  
O. Siredzhuk
Keyword(s):  
Media Discourse ◽  
American Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts

In the article, the notion of an occasionalism was studied; its place and role in the media discourse were outlined. While analyzing occasionalisms according to the theory of relevance by D. Sperber and D. Wilson, the inferential processes in the interpretation of utterances containing occasionalisms were traced. Thanks to conducted analysis, the meaning of occasional units was inferred, the pragmatic characteristics of these units were described and the effects, which they produce in media texts, were singled out

scholarly journals Metaphor as a means of creating a humorous effect in Bulgarian media texts

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Viktotrovna Stoyanova
Keyword(s):  
General Context ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Implicit Functions ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism ◽  
Sociocultural Factor ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linguistic Means

The paper is devoted to the questions of metaphor as a linguistic means and cognitive mechanism for creating a humorous effect in Bulgarian media texts. There is a similarity between the nature of metaphors and the humor, the ability of perception which refers to the evolutionary acquisition. The relationship of metaphor and humor is manifested in the comparison of the contradictory and the combination of the disproportionate. The humorous effect created by the metaphor in the media discourse is included in the general context and is the result of deliberate efforts, in accordance with pragmatic, linguistic and cultural settings. Despite the universality of humor and metaphor, the interpretation of knowledge, modeled by a comic metaphor, is governed by the sociocultural factor. The implicit functions of the metaphor fit into the functional and pragmatic parameters of media discourse, making the metaphor an integral part of media speech. The collected material allows us to conclude that there are single comic metaphors in Bulgarian media texts, or metaphors create the humorous effect of a fragment / whole media text based on one or more metaphorical models. Increasingly, in a modern Bulgarian media discourse, a metaphor is implemented as a construct script for the semantic development of the text.

scholarly journals Emergent impoliteness and persuasive emotionality in Polish media discourses

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 685-704
Author(s):  
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk ◽  
Piotr Pęzik
Keyword(s):  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Research Outcomes ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Event Models ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

The focus of the paper is to identify and discuss cases of what we call emergent impoliteness and persuasive emotionality based on selected types of discourse strategies in Polish media which contribute to increasingly high negative emotionality in audiences and to the radicalization of language and attitudes when addressing political opponents. The role and function of emotional discourse are particularly foregrounded to identify its persuasive role in media discourses and beyond. Examples discussed are derived from current Polish media texts. The materials are collected from the large Polish monitor media corpus monco.frazeo.pl (Pęzik 2020). The analysis is conducted in terms of quantitative corpus tools (Pęzik 2012, 2014), concerning emotive and media discourse approaches (Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Wilson 2013, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 2015, 2017a, 2017b). The analysis includes a presentation of the ways mass media construe events (Langacker 1987/1991) in terms of their ideological framing, understood as particular imposed/constructed event models and structures (cf. Gans 1979). Special attention is paid to the negative axiological evaluation of people and events in terms of mostly implicitly persuasive and offensive discourse, including the role emotion clusters of harm, hurt and offence, anger and contempt play in the media persuasive tactics. The research outcomes provide a research basis and categorization of types of emergent impoliteness and persuasive emotionality, which involve implicit persuasion directed at negative emotionality raising with the media public, as identifiedin the analyzed media texts.

scholarly journals Shaping of the axiological status of Tomos in Ukrainian religious media discourse in the light of cognitive linguistics and rhetoric

2018 ◽  
pp. 89-105
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Levko
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Religious Media ◽  
Wrong Diagnosis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Church Law ◽  
The Church

The paper is focused on the cognitive mechanisms underlying the construction of axiological status of Tomos and autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ukrainian religious media discourse of the last few months from the standpoint of cognitive linguistics and rhetoric. The data used for the study are interviews, announcements and other media texts of the UOC (MP) and UOC (KP) leaders and spokesmen, published on respective official websites of each jurisdiction in 2018. As a result of our study, it was found out that discussions around Tomos and autocephaly gave birth to new allusion-based phraseological units in Ukrainian media space, while also actualizing the use of religious terms which had been previously unknown to average citizens, such as "Tomos", "autocephaly", "canonicity", "Eucharistic communication", "Ecumenical Patriarch" etc. In the media context, these specific terms of the Church law have acquired axiological connotations, turning into axiologems and anti-axiologems. It was also revealed that the argumentation of the positive/negative axiological status of Tomos and autocephaly in Ukrainian religious mass media largely relies on cognitive metaphors and metonymies. In the media context, these cognitive mechanisms of knowledge categorization are of great importance in swaying the public opinion and affecting the value system of the audience. In the texts under study, the most common cognitive metaphors are "Church is body", "Church leaders are doctors", "Intra-Orthodox relations are war", "Intra-Orthodox relations are play", while the most prominent cognitive metonymy is geographical metonymy, whereby the agency is transferred to location. The most productive source domains for the metaphors, which serve to express the evaluation of current processes in the Church, turn out to be human body, medicine, war, play and crime. Decisions of Church leaders regarding Tomos are conceptualized as right or wrong diagnosis and treatment for an illness, expansionist policies or war for peace, raider attack or fair/unfair play. In the media texts produced by both sides, negative connotations are also conveyed via geographical metonymy, when the Constantinople Patriarchate is substituted for by Fanar or Istanbul, whereas the Moscow Patriarchate is referred to as Moscow or Kremlin. We have come to the conclusion that cognitive metaphors and metonymies in Ukrainian religious media discourse are used with the purpose of increasing the persuasive effect of the text and swaying the audience towards adopting the viewpoint of the addresser.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF THE RUSSIAN MIGRANT EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (7(76)) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
A.D. Anisimova ◽  
K.G. Bujlova ◽  
O.V. Lysova ◽  
A.Sh Abdullina
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Russian Scientific ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Teachers And Parents

In recent years, the processes of international cooperation and migration in the sphere of science and education in Russia have been actively developing in the context of the formation of an international scientific and educational space. This article discusses the features of the functioning of the Russian migrant educational discourse. Based on the analysis of sources in the Russian scientific and periodical press, electronic media, and articles in the blogs of teachers and parents on the Internet that are part of the migrant educational discourse, we have noted that it is dominated by erethism. Most of the texts of this discourse indicate that they are dominated by a negative attitude towards this group of students studying in Russian schools. The media often uses the technique of "dramatization", strengthening the negative position of the topic at the expense of the title. The analysis of texts shows that in the migration educational media discourse, communication strategies primarily Express a conflict (confrontational) communication strategy. Only a small part of the texts (about 20%) is focused on cooperative tactics aimed at developing linguistic tolerance in a multicultural educational space.

scholarly journals Symmetry and Asymmetry in the Structure of Temporal Opposition “Past / Future” (based on Media Texts)

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
I. N. Ponomarenko ◽  
N. A. Segal ◽  
Y. N. Bychina ◽  
S. A. Mospan
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Asymmetry ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Linguistic Units

The article is devoted to the identification of the asymmetric basis of explication of temporal oppositions in the Russian-language media discourse. The semantic-pragmatic potential of linguistic units representing the antithesis of “past / future” and its textual explicators is established and analyzed. Given the specifics of linguistic and extralinguistic factors, the features of modeling the current political picture of the world are revealed. It is emphasized that the asymmetry of the media discourse, which has become the subject of scientific research only in the last decade, is dictated by the manipulative orientation of media texts. An analysis of practical material allows us to conclude that the media texts of the beginning of the XXI century are a priori asymmetric and are built on both communicative and linguistic asymmetries, which consist primarily in the contraposition of linguistic and contextual antonyms that reflect polar political views and aspirations. The asymmetry of images of the past and future and the ambiguity of connotations inherent in the linguistic representatives of these images allow us to talk about the variability of the value component of the key categories of the political picture of the world and prove its dynamic nature.

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