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 Distinctive features of motherhood discourse in Russian media

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-231
Author(s):  
Anna A. Kuvychko
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Political Media ◽  
Media Discourses

This study of modern media devoted to the problems of motherhood discourse is significant and relevant due to both the axiological nature of motherhood phenomenon and socio-cultural features of the existing (present day) media space. Problems of motherhood are of enduring importance. The variety of issues concerning motherhood raised in modern media indicate the relevance and importance of all manifestations of this phenomenon for contemporary society. The purpose of the present study is to identify and reveal the features of media discourse of motherhood in socio-political media (which is a product of cognitive activity of modern Russian society) through the category of interdiscursivity. The material for this research was obtained from media texts of Internet versions of Russian socio-political media Arguments and Facts, Izvestia, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Moskovsky Komsomolets, and Kommersant, published from 2001 to 2019. The research methodology includes content analysis of online publications, classification and systematization of the research material: media texts, media text studies and description of media discourse on motherhood in the form of a cognitive structure (concept sphere). The present study is the first attempt to interpret maternal media discourse through the category of interdiscursiveness, a fusion of various discourses. The author presents media discourse on motherhood in contemporary Russian socio-political media as a combination of institutional media discourses (political, economic, legal, medical, and religious), each manifesting its own aims and using own linguistic means of presenting information. This approach to describing media discourse emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the study and indicates the relevance of its results for various fields of scientific knowledge, primarily journalism and cognitive linguistics.

Lex Orandi and Lex Credendi — Strange Bed-Fellows?: Some Reflections on Worship and Doctrine

1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-242
Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
The Media ◽  
Television Interview ◽  
North And South ◽  
The Church ◽  
Lex Orandi

Easter 1985 in the Church of England was a strange experience, resounding with the controversy which David Jenkins had begun the previous year during a television interview, after he had been elected Bishop of Durham. The scenario has been widely discussed by the media, by professional theologians, and by ordinary church-folk, north and south of the border. For the writer, it was the first Easter he can remember since being ordained when the resurrection was actually being discussed, not just in Senior Common Rooms, but in pubs. I was even taken to task by someone working in my local wine-store. In some respects, the furore was well summed-up in his attitude: he had long ceased to attend church, but shouldn't church-leaders believe in what they are supposed to believe?

scholarly journals Geneza i rozwój szkolnego ustawodawstwa Kościoła w epoce średniowiecza (rekonesans)

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-49
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Ratajczak
Keyword(s):  
School System ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Church School ◽  
Church Law ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Development And Evolution

The aim of the article is to present the beginnings and the subsequent development and evolution of church law in the sphere of education from the 4th to the beginning of the 16th century. The roots of the acts of law presented by the Popes, synods and councils were based on the traditions of Roman law, but a variety of reasons from the field of policy, economy and society led to the need to establish a church school system. The aim of the Church was to create an independent school system with its own purposes, different from civil schools. The article shows the main factors in the development of the legislation in the sphere of education and the functioning of the schools, and the relationship between civil and Church leaders. Another field of analysis is to search for the inspirations, aims and reception of the law in cathedral, collegiate, parish and monastic schools.

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 Cultural Memory of Russia and China in Mental Landscape of Mass Media

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Irina Erofeeva ◽  
Alexey Muravyov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

The article presents a linguoculturological analysis of key concepts of national vision in the Russian and Chinese mass media. It offers substantiation of a conceptual view of the world objectified in a media discourse. The concepts, as cognitive-linguistic structures, are supported by the background knowledge of the addressee and the addresser, involve the meanings of the proto-text, stimulate an adequate interpretation of the media text and ensure the effectiveness of its impact on the cognitive, emotional and behavioral levels of consumer’s perception. The space of such a media text forms a mental landscape, which is a set of values that reflect the spectrum of people’s life on a certain territory and that are broadcast over time in the paradigm of «past – present – future». Based on research in the field of cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics, journalism, social philosophy, it is argued that the new media technologies, textual and formatted ones are controlled by a collective cultural memory. The empirical base of the study was more than 500 texts of Russian and Chinese mass media. The cultural landscape of the media discourse is represented by texts in which the nuclear concepts of the national view of the world in Russia and China are embedded: collectivism (collegiality), patriotism. The article describes the features of these concepts’ representation in conjunction with the process of objectification of the dominant cultural values of China and Russia. An intensive representation of the concepts in mass media provides necessary national identification in Russian and Chinese societies, allows to implement the cultural hereditary function of the media and to protect the primordial traditions of the society, to transmit the ideals and cultural heritage of the previous generations.

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.

scholarly journals Constructing the Ideal Future in Foreign Military Media Discourses of The World War II Period

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 762-783
Author(s):  
Olga A. Solopova ◽  
Maria S. Saltykova
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
World War ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Ideal

The major objective of the paper is to establish functions of modeling the ideal future in the British, American and French military media discourses of World War II period. The authors argue that military media discourse is a hybrid type that combines the components of military, political, military-political, and media discourses whose concentration and interpenetration can vary greatly. The military media discourse is a mode of organizing knowledge, ideas, or experience of war that are rooted in the media and influenced by historical, geopolitical, social, and cultural context. The approach taken in this study is a mixed methodology of linguistic political prognostics that integrates fundamentals of philosophy, future studies, cognitive linguistics, and political linguistics. The samples from the digitized archives of the UK, the USA, and France (24 695 samples) are investigated through a number of methods: corpus, descriptive, cognitive and discourse analyses, cultural, metaphorical modeling, and comparative analyses. Being a basic value of military media discourse, the ideal future is determined by its nature: the idea of a better world inherent in human nature is intensified in transformative moments, war being one of them; representing the present, the media model both the past and the future. The ideal future integrates the key features of utopia and prognosis differing from them in certain specific characteristics. Its basic functions are prognostic, constructive, modeling, critical, provocative, and visualizing ones that complement one another in con-structing an ideal projection of the postwar world and the future of the USSR as a geopolitical ally of Great Britain, the USA, and France.

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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