scholarly journals Functions of English-Language Borrowings in Russian and Italian (on the Basis of Radio Discourse)

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
E. V. Volkova ◽  
A. A. Khustenko ◽  
E. A. Sherina
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Lexical Structure ◽  
The Media ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Dynamic Phenomena

The process of borrowing English words in Russian and Italian is discussed in the article. Particular attention is paid to the communicative-pragmatic analysis of the peculiarities of the use of Anglicisms in radio speeches. In the study of dynamic language processes, the media and communication have traditionally been the main sources of replenishment of the lexical structure of the language, including through foreign borrowing. The relevance of this work is determined both by the increased scientific interest in comprehension of active language processes in recent decades, and the linguists refer to comparative studies of dynamic phenomena in systems of different languages in order to identify similar or different processes in them, due to national linguistic specificity. A review of the scientific literature on various aspects of the study of borrowing in the analyzed languages is performed, the choice of material is substantiated, and research methods are described. The results of a comparative analysis of Russian and Italian radio speeches are presented. It is established that English-language borrowings have an extensive set of functions that are auxiliary in relation to the system-forming function of radio discourse - the impact on the target audience. It is proved that the coincidence of the main borrowing functions in the radio discourse of the analyzed countries is due to the strong position of the English language as a universal international means of communication.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of News and Analytical English-Language Media Texts About Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01137
Author(s):  
Yulia Yuzhakova ◽  
Liliya Polyakova ◽  
Elena Suvorova ◽  
Tatiana Emets
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Impact Function ◽  
The Media ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Linguistic Means

The article is devoted to the consideration of peculiarities of the English-language news and analytic media texts about Russia, which contribute to the formation of a certain attitude towards this country. It is noted that the scope of media texts in English prevails in the global information space, which cannot but affect the viewpoint of the “average” English speaking reader. The notion of ideological modality, which is often present in media texts about Russia, is considered. The media text compositional peculiarities and linguistic means are described in connection with the impact function implementation and the certain attitude towards Russia formation.

scholarly journals A corpus study of English “nautical” idioms

Neophilology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 636-644
Author(s):  
Olga V. Shchagina
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Discourse Community ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Lexical Structure ◽  
Specialized Language ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Metaphorical Mapping ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Language Corpus

We attempt to study nautical history influence on the phraseology of contemporary English. Britain’s geographical location and consequently its dependence on the surrounding seas greatly affected the language of all English-speaking countries. On the basis of criteria defined by J. Swales and ideas of W. Teubert, we identify the English-speaking discourse community of sea-farers. The assessment of historical and social conditions made it possible to determine the causes and the impact of the highly specialized language of this discourse community on the entire Eng-lish language. Following the study of two main approaches when working with language corpora (corpus-based and corpus-driven), we conducts corpus-driven research relying totally on the data obtained from the corpus. Using the material from the English language corpus NOW (News on the Web), we study the context and extent of distribution of seven phraseological units with com-ponents with the semantics of navigation in two main variants of the English language: British and American. The data obtained showed partial grammatical and syntactic discrepancies, as well as acceptable variations in the lexical structure of some units. The study of original nautical meanings allows us to understand the metaphorical mapping underlying the sense of the idioms.

The impact of the media on the decision of parents in South Wales to accept measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) immunization

2014 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
pp. 550-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. WALSH ◽  
D. Rh. THOMAS ◽  
B. W. MASON ◽  
M. R. EVANS
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
Pressure Groups ◽  
Outbreak Area ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Health Response ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

SUMMARYA large measles outbreak occurred in South Wales in 2012/2013. The outbreak has been attributed to low take-up of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) immunization in the early 2000s. To understand better the factors that led to this outbreak we present the findings of a case-control study carried out in the outbreak area in 2001 to investigate parents' decision on whether to accept MMR. Parents who decided not to take-up MMR at the time were more likely to be older and better educated, more likely to report being influenced by newspapers [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 3·07, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1·62–5·80], television (aOR 3·30, 95% CI 1·70–6·43), the internet (aOR 7·23, 3·26–16·06) and vaccine pressure groups (aOR 5·20, 95% CI 2·22–12·16), and less likely to be influenced by a health visitor (aOR 0·30, 95% CI 0·16–0·57). In this area of Wales, daily English-language regional newspapers, UK news programmes and the internet appeared to have a powerful negative influence. We consider the relevance of these findings to the epidemiology of the outbreak and the subsequent public health response.

Digital Rebellion

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Wolfson
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
New Media ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Historical Antecedents ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media And Communication

This book examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements. It begins with the rise of the Zapatistas in the mid-1990s, and how aspects of the movement—network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent—became essential parts of Indymedia and all Cyber Left organizations. From there the book charts the media-based think tanks and experiments that continued the Cyber Left's evolution through the Independent Media Center's birth around the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. After examining the historical antecedents and rise of the global Indymedia network, the book melds virtual and traditional ethnographic practice to explore the Cyber Left's cultural logic, mapping the social, spatial and communicative structure of the Indymedia network and detailing its operations on the local, national and global level. It also looks at the participatory democracy that governs global social movements and the ways the movement's twin ideologies, democracy and decentralization, have come into tension, and how what the book calls the switchboard of struggle conducts stories of shared struggle from the hyper-local and dispersed worldwide. As the book shows, understanding the intersection of Indymedia and the Global Social Justice Movement illuminates their foundational role in the Occupy struggle, Arab Spring uprising, and the other emergent movements that have in recent years re-energized radical politics.

scholarly journals Cultural Globalization and its Educational Effects on the Arab World and Ways of Facing them – A theoretical analytic study –: العولمة الثقافية وآثارها التربوية في الوطن العربي وسبل مواجهتها – دراسة نظرية تحليلية –

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (39) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Saleh Nsairat
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
English Language ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Cultural Globalization ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

The objective of this study was to investigate the educational effects of cultural globalization on the Arab world and ways to face them. The study adopted the deductive analytic method. The results showed that globalization is a state we live in different spheres of life, and manifestations of cultural globalization in its impact on the Arab cultural identity. It is considered as a cultural invasion unilaterally violated the privacy of Arab society and its principles. The English language became the first globally in terms of teaching in universities and widely used in most areas of life. The impact of cultural globalization seriously spread by the media, which is one of the pillars of cultural globalization on access to members of the community and influence them. The effects of educational cultural globalization in the Arab world is represented in the prevalence of consumer culture, individualism, selfishness, alienation, isolation from human society, the culture of the prevalence of sex, violence, pornography, and unrestricted freedom. Finally, the results showed that cultural globalization can be faced through the introduction of achievements of globalization and take advantage of them in the scientific and technological side, as well as the emphasis on the Arab cultural identity, instills the values ​​of loyalty and belonging to the Arab community. Many recommendations were presented such as offering the best efforts to benefit from the advantages of the cultural organization, adopting the technological and scientific choices and employing them in all fields and keep pace with the global technological and scientific revolution to give the Arab world its distinguished status among the countries of the world.

The Impact of Children’s You Tube Videos on English Language Socialization and Acquisition in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Layli Hamida ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Socialization ◽  
English Language Development ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Media ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
The Impact

This study aims at describing how the use of English on youtube videos play a significant role in the socialization and acquisition of the language for children in Indonesia. It particularly focuses on the depiction of how the media serve a platform for children’s English language development and socialization and whether parents or other adults’ accommodation reinforces or counteracts the language. Ethnographic interviews were conducted on five middle class parents with children of 3-5 years of age so as to collect information on children and parents’ everyday practices with the media. The findings suggest that parents’ beliefs and ideologies on foreign language socialization as well as their English proficiency lead to their primary support for English. Their everyday media consumption and communication practices with children show how arenas provided by parents have turned into an assumed form of scaffolding in the way that children reflect on the language collected from the media. The research indicates that global practices of English on the internet intersect with local practices of language socialization.

scholarly journals Globalization processes in the Serbian media language

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
Jelena Lj. Spasich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
English Language ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
Social Trend ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this article is the analysis of the results of previous Serbian research on the impact of globalization on the Serbian media language. One of the main negative aspects of globalization is the weakening of national identity in order to adapt to world trends. The negative effects of globalization processes include the decline in the print media circulation and the growing popularity of cheap entertainment content offered by television, the disappearance of analytical, quality press, as well as the adaptation of information to mass distribution. The Serbian media language reflects the general social trend of approaching European and world trends, which, in addition to numerous positive effects, carries with it the risk of neglecting the elements of national cultural heritage, including the use of the national alphabet. Globalization processes affect all levels of the language structure and as a result, they are also manifested in the Serbian media language at the phonological, morphological, syntactic and orthographic level. The Serbian media language is characterized by the unjustified use of internationalisms originating from the English language. Anglicisms are often inadequately adapted, and most often appear in entertainment news and texts about popular culture, which are addressed to younger readers, as well as in electronic editions of printed dailies, weeklies and magazines in Serbia. The effects of cultural globalization, which is perhaps most visible in the media sphere, can be mitigated if the elements of national cultural heritage are carefully preserved. The use of Cyrillic in the Serbian media, the use of anglicisms only when they are really necessary, and a critical attitude towards the adoption of foreign language patterns can reduce the negative consequences of McDonaldization in the media sphere.

The Impact of Anglicizing Former German-Language Psychology Journals on Authorship and Citation Frequencies

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günter Krampen ◽  
Thomas Huckert ◽  
Gabriel Schui
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
English Language ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
German Language ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Number Of Authors

Exemplary for other than English-language psychology journals, the impact of recent Anglicization of five former German-language psychology journals on (1) authorship (nationality, i.e., native language, and number of authors, i.e., single or multiple authorships), (2) formal characteristics of the journal (number of articles per volume and length of articles), and (3) number of citations of the articles in other journal articles, the language of the citing publications, and the impact factors (IF) is analyzed. Scientometric data on these variables are gathered for all articles published in the four years before anglicizing and in the four years after anglicizing the same journal. Results reveal rather quick changes: Citations per year since original articles’ publication increase significantly, and the IF of the journals go up markedly. Frequencies of citing in German-language journals decrease, citing in English-language journals increase significantly after the Anglicization of former German-language psychology journals, and there is a general trend of increasing citations in other languages as well. Side effects of anglicizing former German-language psychology journals include the publication of shorter papers, their availability to a more international authorship, and a slight, but significant increase in multiple authorships.

The More Control, the Better?

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeeyun Oh ◽  
Mun-Young Chung ◽  
Sangyong Han
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Design ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Story Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High User ◽  
User Control ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Control Versus ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Despite of the popularity of interactive movie trailers, rigorous research on one of the most apparent features of these interfaces – the level of user control – has been scarce. This study explored the effects of user control on users’ immersion and enjoyment of the movie trailers, moderated by the content type. We conducted a 2 (high user control versus low user control) × 2 (drama film trailer versus documentary film trailer) mixed-design factorial experiment. The results showed that the level of user control over movie trailer interfaces decreased users’ immersion when the trailer had an element of traditional story structure, such as a drama film trailer. Participants in the high user control condition answered that they were less fascinated with, absorbed in, focused on, mentally involved with, and emotionally affected by the movie trailer than participants in the low user control condition only with the drama movie trailer. The negative effects of user control on the level of immersion for the drama trailer translated into users’ enjoyment. The impact of user control over interfaces on immersion and enjoyment varies depending on the nature of the media content, which suggests a possible trade-off between the level of user control and entertainment outcomes.

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