scholarly journals Newspaper-Style Expressivization and Dialogization Trends (News Block of English-Language Newspapers)

2020 ◽  
pp. 128-143
Author(s):  
E. A. Nikonova
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
The State ◽  
Rhetorical Question ◽  
Research Results ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Word Play ◽  
The Core ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts

The article is devoted to the analysis of the state of the modern newspaper style. The author notes that the theory of newspaper style was developed in the 60s of the last century and since then has undergone a number of changes that have not received sufficient coverage in linguistics. Attention is paid to the changes in the modern newspaper style, among which one can single out the strengthening of emotionality and dialogue. It is emphasized that these features are generally characteristic of media texts and, correspondingly, newspaper-style texts included in the media space. According to the presented research results, these tendencies are realized in newspaper-style texts through the use of colloquial vocabulary, repetition, quotation and question in the narrative (or rhetorical question), word play. It is shown that, at the same time, the majority of news reports (81 %), which constitute the core of the newspaper style and most clearly reflect its features, retain the key style characteristics: the prevalence of the message function, conciseness, brevity, the desire for emotionless and non-judgmental presentation. It seems that the statements about the “blurring” and disappearance of the newspaper style are premature and are caused by its evolution and dynamics.

Constructing the myth of protest masculinity in Chinese English language news media

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yating Yu ◽  
Mark Nartey
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Media

Although the Chinese media’s construction of unmarried citizens as ‘leftover’ has incited much controversy, little research attention has been given to the ways ‘leftover men’ are represented in discourse. To fill this gap, this study performs a critical discourse analysis of 65 English language news reports in Chinese media to investigate the predominant gendered discourses underlying representations of leftover men and the discursive strategies used to construct their identities. The findings show that the media perpetuate a myth of ‘protest masculinity’ by suggesting that poor, single men may become a threat to social harmony due to the shortage of marriageable women in China. Leftover men are represented as poor men, troublemakers and victims via discursive processes that include referential, predicational and aggregation strategies as well as metaphor. This study sheds light on the issues and concerns of a marginalised group whose predicament has not been given much attention in the literature.

scholarly journals LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SLAVIC MEDIA TEXTS CONTAINING HATE SPEECH

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Larysa Gorodnycha ◽  
Maryna Olkhovyk ◽  
Svitlana Gergul
Keyword(s):  
Hate Speech ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Resources Distribution ◽  
The Media ◽  
Internally Displaced Person ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Goals And Objectives

The article analyzes hate speech definitions as linguistic and cultural phenomena in the context of an interdisciplinary approach, and describes features of linguistic resources distribution in the texts with the hate speech. The paper deals with the functioning of the concept “hate speech” in the regional media space of Ukraine and Bulgaria. The authors define the causes of the hate speech usage in the media texts and study the hate speech as the source of the modern vocabulary. The article gives deeper understanding of the essence of the concept “hate speech”, more clearly defining its boundaries, reasons for distribution and the main features of the functioning, considering the interdisciplinary approach to its interpretation. The research describes the features of an editor's work on the texts with the hate speech and methods of its neutralization, as well as proven discriminatory manifestation of hate speech in political neologisms as “refugee”, “migrant”, “internally displaced person”. For implementing the goals and objectives of the study, the complex of methods has been used: system approach, monitoring and analysis of the media texts in the regional media, summarizing the results of the analysis.

scholarly journals PRAGMALINGUISTIC FEATURES OF REPRODUCTION OF LANGUAGE MEANS OF EXPRESSION IN MODERN ENGLISH MEDIA TEXTS IN UKRAINIAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (87) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yana Tikan ◽  
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Kateryna Potapenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Expressive Vocabulary ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Emotional Meaning ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Translation Methods

The work is devoted to topical problems of functioning and translation of expressive vocabulary in media texts of modern English-language press. The study defines the concept of "media text". Stylistic features of English – language media texts are characterized. It is noted that the language of English-language media texts has certain features and directions for certain categories of readers. The analysis of English-language media proved the direct relationship between the degree of complexity of the selected language tools and socio-cultural specific features of the target audience. Linguistic practice of mass media determines the main tendencies of development of lexical-semantic, word-forming and syntactic structures of language. The language of the media is singled out as a separate background in journalism, which has its own genre and language features. Expressiveness is a property of language units to reinforce the logical and emotional meaning of what is said. Expression is a set of semantic and stylistic features of speech expressiveness, such as quality, due to which stylistic marking (emotionality) is achieved. The concepts of expression and expressiveness are different: expression serves to increase and enhance expressiveness, and expressiveness is that expressiveness. Expressive vocabulary is constantly updated and supplemented with new lexical and semantic variants. It is emphasized that a significant part of the specific vocabulary in the English-language media is expressive vocabulary. The concepts of expressive vocabulary and their functionality in media text are considered. The results of the analysis allow us to conclude that expressive vocabulary is quite common in newspaper texts, which is reflected in articles on various topics (economic, business, entertainment, youth newspapers, etc.), creating a stylistic effect in each of them. It is noted that the transfer of expressive English vocabulary in the Ukrainian language is carried out with the involvement of such translation methods as assimilation, descriptive translation, tracing, transcription, transliteration.

scholarly journals The genitive case as a grammatical preference of modern press

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
M. A. Salkova ◽  
O. A. Machina
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Structure Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Core ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
Case Structure ◽  
Functional Capacities ◽  
Genitive Case

The article focuses on the construction N’s + N known as the genitive case structure. Analysis of the data retrieved from two English Language corpora (the BNC and COCA) has demonstrated that the N’s + N structure as a typical grammatical feature of modern mass media discourse realizes certain communicative and discursive properties that constitute the core of this mixed morphological-and-syntactic phenomenon. Thanks to its anthropocentric character, the structure also possesses some functional capacities that make a valuable and indispensable contribution to the organization of meaning in mass media texts.

scholarly journals LEXICAL AND DERIVATIONAL MEANINGS OF “MALWARE” FRAME IN RUSSIAN AND ENGISH-LANGUAGE MEDIA TEXTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-106
Author(s):  
D.I. Imamgayazova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Computer Virus ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Russian Language

The article examines the structure of the “malware” frame based on the texts of the Russian and English-language media. In order to identify the relationship between the deep and external levels of the frame, an analysis of lexical and derivational meanings and propositional schemes is carried out, through which stereotyped knowledge about the nature and action of malicious programs is actualized. The research results demonstrate that in English-language media the malware frame is comparable in structure to the “disease” frame: slots “symptoms”, “methods of infection”, “affected organs/systems”, etc. are filled with specific lexical units, neologisms are actively used to refer to conventional knowledge. At the same time, in the Russian-language media, the main lexical and derivational meanings are grouped around the “computer virus” subframe, borrowing and calquing are widely used, which leads to a confusion of concepts in the concept sphere of “malware”.

STUDENTS, NEWS AND DECISION-MAKERS IN THE STATE OF EMERGENCY

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
CRISTINA GAVRILUȚĂ ◽  
COSTEL MARIAN DALBAN
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
The State ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Behavioural Changes ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Official Sources

The global epidemiological context has caused various social and behavioural changes among the population. This article measures the confidence of Romanian students towards political and non-political communicators, present in the media space during the alert period. Furthermore, the ways of informing them and the effects of “fake news” will be highlighted. Analyses of an online survey show that institutions of power and science benefit from a higher degree of trust compared to political ones. Students are informed from official sources and are aware of the negative effects of fakenews and also appreciate differently the trust offered to the institutions in relation to their nominal representatives. The study had as respondents students from all university centers in Romania (N=1013), being implemented between April and May 2020.

scholarly journals Fake News in Modern Media Space

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 774-786
Author(s):  
Victoria Dorofeeva
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
False News

The author attempts to provide theoretical understanding of the essence and content of the media space. It was determined that the primary task of the media space is to understand our reality, to implement effective communication and to form public opinion. The author mentions that the modern media space functions in the conditions of increasing speed of communication processes which generate “waves” of information noise. Thus, fake news appears in the media field increasingly frequently. The author found out that the content of the «fake news» concept has not been clearly defined yet and comprehensive studies of this relatively new phenomenon are not available either. There are no definite criteria for classifying news as fake. According to the author, fake news is completely or partially fictional information about certain individuals, public events and events in general, which is presented in the media as real authoritative journalistic materials. The article describes the mechanism of the origin of fake news and its distribution in the media space. The main reasons for faking include the high rate of content delivery, the “infotainment” and the relaying nature of journalism. The results of the study allow the author to define fake news as discretely existing types of news. The author also considers national cultural features and the mechanism of distribution of false news in Internet networks. Specific Russian- and English-language sites hosting fake news are analyzed, their impact on society is studied. The author concludes that systematic misinformation of the audience leads to de-professionalization, discrediting of media workers and de-institutionalization of journalism. The article presents data indicating the concern of the world community about the distribution of fake Internet content. There are examples of the creation of special government organizations and the development of legislative initiatives to combat fakes. The author gives a number of recommendations to identify fake news in the wide media space.

Western Media Monopolies and Diversification of Production in the Media: Methodological Disputes

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 74-81
Author(s):  
Yu. Markina
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Market Impact ◽  
Big Business ◽  
The Core ◽  
Monopoly Market ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Merging And Acquisition ◽  
Acquisition Processes

The article deals with the problem of media monopoly market impact upon merging and acquisition processes, diversification being the core of Big Business strategic management. This problem of monopolized markets indirectly influences media texts contents. Examples of ambivalent deals in Western mass media and examples of contradictory methodological discussions of these processes are scrutinized. The conclusions are drawn about ambivalent gist of monopolization in periods of scientific and technological revolutions. The purpose of this article is to consider a number of economic and sociocultural conflicts in the process of merging media enterprises and structures that claim a monopoly or oligopoly place in the market.

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.

Gender and Corruption

Modern China ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-94
Author(s):  
Fang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The State ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Digital Ethnography ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
The Media ◽  
Official Corruption

From a cultural approach and a feminist perspective, this article analyzes a gendered narrative of official corruption in China through news reports of “keeping a second wife.” Moreover, it engages the lived experiences and perceptions of the message receivers. Drawing upon feminist discourse analysis, interviews, and digital ethnography, this study shows that a cultural script derived from the Chinese storytelling tradition of “women are a source of trouble” serves as a contemporary narrative of corruption in the state media. Nevertheless, the media narrative has generated a vigorous audience counternarrative, which disconnects the media linkage between “second wives” and corruption.

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