From Positive to Death: A Corpus-Based Semantic Analysis of COVID-19 Representation in Malaysian English News Reports

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-28
Author(s):  
Chang Li Xin ◽  
Hajar Abdul Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
News Reports

Appraisal of Opinion Expressions in Discourse

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Asher ◽  
Farah Benamara ◽  
Yvette Yannick Mathieu
Keyword(s):  
Wide Class ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Opinion Analysis ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Discourse Relations

We present an analysis of opinion in texts based on a detailed semantic analysis of a wide class of expressions. We propose a new annotation schema for a deep contextual opinion analysis using discourse relations. We analyze the distribution of our categories in three different types of online corpora, movie reviews, Letters to the Editor and news reports, in English and French.

scholarly journals The Mythologeme “Coronavirus” in the Modern Mass Media News in Europe and Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 558-567
Author(s):  
Irina S. Karabulatova ◽  
Margarita D. Lagutkina ◽  
Stefania Amiridou
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Reports ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Media ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Good And Evil

The article analyzes the impact of nominations in the media discourse on the coronavirus on the public consciousness of Europe and Asia. The authors consider the historical, sociological, and psycholinguistic aspects of the use of names in texts about the coronavirus, identify the features of the impact of such texts on the reader and determine the target orientation of such texts. Hypothesis: names in news reports about coronavirus in modern news discourse in conditions of quarantine and self-isolation act as triggers that unite different strata of society, creating a hologram of a single mental space, actualizing archetypal images of the confrontation between Good and Evil. Particular attention is paid to the connection between ethno-confessional myths and ideas about the coronavirus in the public consciousness, their involvement in information wars. The methodology for the analysis of names is standard; it includes sociolinguistic, structural, and semantic analysis, evaluative, motivational, target analysis, etc. The study helps to understand linguistic universals in the transmission of psycho-emotional moods in a stressful situation in a pandemic. The article will be of interest to specialists in the field of linguistics, sociology, political science, psychology

News reports

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 363-365
Author(s):  
A Mayhew
Keyword(s):  
News Reports

Feel Thine Own Self – Mood Congruency Evaluation of Emotional State Adjectives

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Szczepan J. Grzybowski ◽  
Miroslaw Wyczesany ◽  
Jan Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Mood Induction ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Time Window ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Negativity Bias ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
Semantic Access ◽  
Current Mood ◽  
Component Time

Abstract. The goal of the study was to explore event-related potential (ERP) differences during the processing of emotional adjectives that were evaluated as congruent or incongruent with the current mood. We hypothesized that the first effects of congruence evaluation would be evidenced during the earliest stages of semantic analysis. Sixty mood adjectives were presented separately for 1,000 ms each during two sessions of mood induction. After each presentation, participants evaluated to what extent the word described their mood. The results pointed to incongruence marking of adjective’s meaning with current mood during early attention orientation and semantic access stages (the P150 component time window). This was followed by enhanced processing of congruent words at later stages. As a secondary goal the study also explored word valence effects and their relation to congruence evaluation. In this regard, no significant effects were observed on the ERPs; however, a negativity bias (enhanced responses to negative adjectives) was noted on the behavioral data (RTs), which could correspond to the small differences traced on the late positive potential.

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