scholarly journals Evidential Modification of a Statement in a News Discourse: A Functional Aspect

2020 ◽  
pp. 158-170
Author(s):  
A. I. Chepurnaya
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
German Language ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Functional Aspect ◽  
Reported Speech ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Selected Functions ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The results of a study of the modalization of statements in terms of reportative evidentiality in the news discourse based on the material of Russian, English and German-language articles are presented in the article. Particular attention is paid to the functions of quoted or reported speech and indicators of reportative evidentiality, which are considered as two components that make up the structural-semantic whole of statements with quotation inclusions. The novelty of the study is in an attempt to conduct a comprehensive study of the functional aspect of reportative-evidential modification of the utterance. The relevance of the study is due to the importance of the information and news genres of media discourse in modern society, as well as the insufficient development of the functional aspect of reportative-evidential modalization of the utterance in the news discourse for all the high frequency of quotation inclusions in the texts of this genre. A classification is proposed that includes eight functions: three functions of the evidential framework (meta-informing, increasing the recipient's trust in the reliability of the message and delegation of responsibility) and five functions of quoted and reported speech (informative, synthesizing, expressive-evaluative, nominative, argumentative). The conclusion about the interconnectedness of the selected functions among themselves, as well as about the possibility of implementing several functions within the framework of one utterance and in each case introducing into the utterance both reported speech and reportative evidentials is drawn.

scholarly journals NEWS MEDIA DISCOURSE AS THE BASIS OF THE INFORMATION SPACE

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 660-669
Author(s):  
M. Moshkal ◽  
◽  
Ye. Akhapov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Present Information

The mass media is a powerful tool that influences on people's minds and a means of promptly conveying information to different parts of the world. It is the most effective force of influencing a person’s emotions that can convince the recipient in the best possible way. This work is devoted to the study of the role of mass media in the modern society and social communication by analyzing the aspects of modern news media discourse. The research work defines the main features of media, especially news discourse, as the type of media that is economically viable and accessible. However, because of the constantly moving society, people are not able to read all the news, so in modern time it is important to present information briefly and clearly. Especially, catch the attention of the reader with headlines that play a special role in the information message.

scholarly journals Pragmatic essence of linguistic modality in media discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 54-59
Author(s):  
Victoria Haenko
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Aspect ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Functional Aspect ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The People ◽  
Evaluative Meaning ◽  
Language Modality ◽  
And Control

The article deals with the problem of correlation between target socio groups in media discourse. It investigates the role modality plays as pragmatic-functional aspect of discourse analysis and studies modality as means of expressing evaluative meaning. The functional aspect of this view reflects the broad objectives of functional linguistics: i.e. relating linguistic structures to social structures. The pragmatic aspect reflects an emphasis that the reader is dependent on a corresponding view of the relationship between the reader, the writer and the text. The studies of modern linguists are broadly concerned with the analysis of ideology in discourse.  The article observes the effects language can have on people, whether through journalistic writing, advertising literature, politics, science.  The study became an attempt to investigate how and which aspects of language play more significant roles in ideology manipulating hearers / readers. It was seen that modality has not only received little consideration at the practical level, but that it had also been handled through the process of modal categorization; i.e. at the theoretical descriptive level. The theoretical aspect of the article is based on the belief that the speech is aimed at attaining certain goals or targets. The article deals with a problem of correlation and interaction between writer and reader, speaker and hearer, text producers and social actors in the process of interpretation. The article investigates the ways the problem can be settled in view of modality as a parameter of discourse analysis to define goals for the target groups outlined above. The study in the article refers to Halliday’s overarching functions: ideational, interpersonal and textual. The article concludes that the realiser of the interpersonal function of language, modality may be used as a linguistic tool to direct and control the behavior of the people.

SPECIFICS OF TRANSLATING ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NEWS TEXTS INTO UKRAINIAN (BASED ON THE OSCE NEWS TEXTS)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (31) ◽  
pp. 164-181
Author(s):  
Yulia Voloshchuk ◽  
Natalya Zhmayeva
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Translation Analysis ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Intensive Development

The relevance of the research is based on the need for an in-depth study of effective ways, techniques and methods of translating English-language news texts into Ukrainian, in particular news texts of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which is due not only to Ukraine’s membership in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, but also to globalization and the intensive development of international relations, which in turn affect the increasing interest of modern Ukrainian readers in foreign news texts. In addition, the relevance of the topic is due to the increased attention of linguists to modern media discourse, which also includes news discourse, and the peculiarities of its translation. The aim of the work is to analyze the specifics of translating English-language news texts into Ukrainian based on the material of OSCE news texts. To achieve this goal, the following research methods were used: comparative and comparable methods for determining the features and problems of translating English-language news texts into Ukrainian; the method of systematization and the method of complex translation analysis for analyzing and systematizing the tools used in translating English-language news texts into Ukrainian, and also using the continuous sampling method to search for basic research materials. As a result of a comparative analysis of the original English-language news texts with their translations into Ukrainian, the regularities of applying specific translation strategy, as well as the corresponding translation transformations that are necessary to achieve an adequate translation of the English-language news text were determined. The study also analyzed the problem of finding an equivalent when translating news texts.

A Comprehensive Study of Low Frequency and High Frequency Channel Correlation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Jimenez Mateo ◽  
Alejandro Blanco Pizarro ◽  
Norbert Ludant ◽  
Matteo Marugan Borelli ◽  
Amanda Garcia-Garcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Channel Correlation ◽  
Frequency Channel ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Young Children's Meaning in Life

1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1099-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelby J. Taylor ◽  
Peter Ebersole
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
First Graders ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Large Percentage ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Young Adolescents ◽  
Do So

A decade ago DeVogler and Ebersole reported that young adolescents were able to express the fact that they had personal meaning in their lives. In the present study we found that even younger children (26 first graders) could do so also when personal meaning was defined to them as that which in their whole life is most important to them. The high frequency of those reporting a personal meaning goes against the position that a large percentage of individuals in our modern society lack personal meaning.

A contrastive corpus-based analysis of the frequency of discourse markers in NE and NNE media discourse: Implications for a “universal discourse competence”

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Vaez Dalili ◽  
Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Contrastive Rhetoric ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Political News ◽  
Semantic Categories ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Contrastive Discourse Markers ◽  
Discourse Competence

AbstractThis article examines whether there are differences in the frequency of discourse markers (DMs) between Native English (NE) and Non-native English (NNE) corpora of political media discourse. Based on the grammatical-pragmatic perspective of discourse markers (Fraser, 2004), the discourse markers identified in the corpora were divided into four semantic categories: contrastive discourse markers (CDM), elaborative discourse markers (EDM), implicative discourse markers (IDM) and temporal discourse markers (TDM). The results revealed that: (i) in both corpora, implicative discourse markers (IDMs) and elaborative discourse markers (EDMs) have the lowest and highest frequency counts respectively, (ii) there are significant differences across the four types of discourse markers in both corpora, (iii) there is no significant difference in the aggregated frequency of discourse markers across NE and NNE political news discourse, and (iv) there are no relative NE/NNE frequency differences within each category of discourse markers. The findings point to the need for revisiting Kaplan's contrastive rhetoric, and provide evidence for the plausibility of a “ universal discourse competence” in advanced NNE written discourse.

Information Model as an Instrument for the Analysis of News Discourse

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Добросклонская ◽  
T. Dobrosklonskaya
Keyword(s):  
Basic Structure ◽  
Information Model ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ideological Context ◽  
Selection Of

Under the conditions of information society special importance is attached to a systematic and consistent study of the news texts, which are regarded as the pinnacle of all media discourse, its basic structure around which all media content is organized. At present the study of news texts applies a wide range of different methods traditionally used for the analysis of socially and culture bound discourse – linguistic, sociological, discursive, contentanalysis etc. However the method specifically designed for the analysis of the news has not been fully described yet. To fill in this gap the author offers to use “the information model” that was designed within the framework of media linguistics – a relatively new but already firmly established branch of language studies. The article focuses on the use of information model for the analysis of news discourse, specifically dealing with all its elements – selection of facts, interpretation, shaping images, forming stereotypes and cultural-ideological context.

scholarly journals THE ESSENCE OF «SOCIAL ANXIETY» AND ITS PLACE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
I.S. Duisenova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Anxieties ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The study of social anxieties requires careful research due to the development of modern society. Modern Kazakh society is unique in its own way,and besides, it is not without causes of social anxiety. Moreover, a comprehensive study of social anxieties provides a person with broad opportunities for knowledge and creativity. On the other hand, the coronavirus pandemic has made its own adjustments to the modern world, which is unstable in its development, it remains uncertain and unpredictable, which does not allow a person to feel completely protected, and this all creates anxiety.

scholarly journals Corpus Analysis of Evidential Verbs SAGEN and BEHAUPTEN in Modern German-Language Media Discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
E. V. Bodnaruk ◽  
T. N. Astakhova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
German Language ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Empirical Material

The semantic and morphological features of the evidential verbs of speech sagen (speak) and behaupten (assert), introducing statements with direct, indirect and fragmentary quotes in the German-language media discourse are discussed in the article. The study is based on the material of the Mannheim Corps of the German Language “COSMAS II”. The empirical material is the newspapers “Die Welt”, “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, and “Tageszeitung”. Attention is paid to one of the components of the category of evidentiality - reported evidentiality, which includes the meanings of ‘quotative’ and ‘hearsay’. A classification of the most significant sources of information is proposed. The results of a comparative analysis of the verbs sagen and behaupten are presented. It is concluded that the verb sagen is the most frequent and neutral verb introducing someone else's speech. The authors note that when transmitting indirect and fragmented citation, sagen usually means ‘individual personal quotative’ based on official and reliable sources. It is proved that the verb behaupten is a marked means of direct, indirect and fragmented quotes. It is emphasized that the verb behaupten is possible as an introductory verb when transmitting the meanings ‘generalized quotation’ and ‘rumors’.

scholarly journals "Once again" about "unwanted people": the transformation from literary type to a concept (historical and functional aspect). Part II.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natal'ya V. Volodina
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Functional Aspect ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Spiritual Culture

The article continues the analysis of "unwanted people" in the literary criticism and journalism from the mid 19th century till the century's end. The focus of the authors' attention is on the polemic of Nikolay Dobrolyubov and Alexander Herzen concerning a his torical role of "unwanted people" who are associated for them with generation of the intellectuals of the 1830s—40s. It is shown in the article that characteristic of "unwanted people" is built by critics on material of literature and actuals of life of modern society. In Nikolay Dobrolyubov's works, the leading place is taken by opposition "superfl uous" Vs. "new" people. This opposition excepts the idea of continuity of generations. Alexander Herzen emphasises historical value of "superfl uous men" for development of consciousness of the person and spiritual culture of society. As the author notes, traditions of criticism of the 1830s—60s had remained in criticism and journalism within the early 20th century. The idea of denial of "unwanted people" in Russia and recognition of value of their historical experience was updated in this period. The concept of "unwanted people" becomes the sign of tragic fate of Russian intellectuals.

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