scholarly journals DISTRESS in English media: integrating cognitive-discursive and computational approaches

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Software Tool ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Frame Semantics ◽  
Mixed Emotions ◽  
Symbolic Information ◽  
Cognitive Framework ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communicative Strategy ◽  
Computational Analyses

The study acknowledges that DISTRESS is a complex cognitive, linguistic, and social phenomenon conceptualized in media discourse by polarized lexical instantiations and conceptual metaphors. This paper focuses on discovering the contrual of DISTRESS and its cultural and contextual objectification in the social context of media discourse. The theoretical backbone comprises conceptual metaphor theory, discourse theory, frame semantics and field theories, and linguistic theory of emotions. Cognitive-discursive framework reinforced by the computational approach reveals communicative situations of distress and their contextual specifications governed by specific communicative strategies and tactics. Integration of discursive and computational analyses with the assistance of Voyant Tools, Textanz, and SentiStrength brings topicality and insightful revelations about the fragments as particular contexts of sociocultural knowledge about DISTRESS. Cognitive framework discloses preconceptual characteristics of DISTRESS, its lexicon, and metaphoric conceptualization on various levels of abstration. The frame model of DISTRESS represents knowledge and associations about the emotion and the interplay of sensory and symbolic information. Discursive framework underpinned by a versatile text analytical software tool Textanz 3.1.4 enables to identify the types, ratio, and shared values of participants in communicative situations of distress. Sentiment analysis by a software tool for social web texts SentiStrength 2.3 helps extract the strength of mixed emotions on a dual scale (positive/negative sentiments) that articulates evaluative attitudes towards the particular communicative situation of distress regulated by a particular communicative strategy.

scholarly journals Communicative Strategies of Social Media Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 16001
Author(s):  
Elena Klemenova ◽  
Margarita Ereshchenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Impact

We have attempted to analyse the features of communicative strategies of a media discourse. The paper describes the notions of “discourse”, “media discourse”, “social media discourse”, and “communicative strategies”. The research is performed using the social media texts collected by the authors. Up to date no linguistic investigations of communicative strategies used in social media discourse have been conducted. We have focused on news texts from information, news, educational, and entertaining platforms, in social networks. The most important thing is to identify the ways of communicative strategies generation and the methods of their association in a social media discourse. The article shows some typical features of a social media discourse. The subject of the research is a set of communicative strategies used during implementation of the communicative functions of texts. The purpose of the paper is to identify and organise communicative strategies, the characteristics of their use depending on the social text topic, and to review the impact of such a text. The main aim of the research is to study the social media discourse as one type of an institutional media discourse; to identify and describe the factors impacting its formation.

scholarly journals MEDIA DISCOURSE: COMMUNICATIVE TACTICS AND STRATEGIES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.V. Ereshchenko ◽  
◽  
E.N. Klemenova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

The article shows some typical features of a social media discourse. The subject of the research is a set of communicative strategies used during implementation of the communicative functions of texts. The purpose of the paper is to identify and organise communicative strategies, the characteristics of their use depending on the social text topic, and to review the impact of such a text. The main aim of the research is to study the social media discourse as one type of an institutional media discourse; to identify and describe the factors impacting its formation

scholarly journals MANIPULATIVE TECHNIQUES IN UKRAINIAN RELIGIOUS MEDIA DISCOURSE

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
OLEXANDR LEVKO
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Holy War ◽  
Religious Media ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Emotional Appeals ◽  
Internet Portals ◽  
Communicative Strategy ◽  
Favorable Light ◽  
Manipulative Techniques

The article analyses communicative strategies in the Ukrainian interconfessional media discourse with the particular focus on investigation of the manipulative techniques, based on publications of the religious internet portals "Religijno-informatsijna sluzhba Ukrajiny", "Katolytskyj ogljadach" and "Religija v Ukrajini". It is established that the texts dealing with interconfessional questions resort to manipulative techniques with the purpose of making the audience take a particular viewpoint to important issues in the field of interconfessional relations, as well as with the purpose of presenting the self in favorable light and discrediting ideological opponents. It is also revealed that the most common manipulative techniques, used in the Ukrainian interconfessional media discourse, are name-calling, misuse of concepts, appealing to ideological mythologems, black-white depiction and the use of emotional appeals. It is demonstrated that the ideological mythologems "Russian world", ''Post-Christian Europe", ''Saint Rus", "Godless West", "holy war", "defense of Christians" are used with negative connotations in the Ukrainian interconfessional media texts as means of communicative strategy of opponents’ discrediting.

An analysis of media discourse on genetically modified rice in China

2020 ◽  
pp. 175048132098209
Author(s):  
Quan Zheng ◽  
Zengyi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Dominant Position ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Gm Rice ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Specific Meaning

Current problems and controversies involving GM issues are not limited to scientific fields but spill over into the social context. When disagreements enter society via media outlets, social factors such as interests, resources, and values can contribute to complicating discourse about a controversial subject. Using the framework for the analysis of media discourse proposed by Carvalho, this paper examines news reports on Chinese GM rice from the dimensions of both text and context, covering the period of 2001–2015. This study shows that media may not only construct basic concepts, theme, and discursive strategies but also generate an ideological stance. This ideology constituted an influential dimension of the GM rice controversy. By following ideology consistent with the dominant position of the Chinese government, the media selectively constructed and endowed GM rice with a specific meaning in the Chinese social context, making possible the reproduction and communication of GM rice knowledge and risks to the public.

scholarly journals The World capital of reggaeton: Verbal framing of Medellin in online media discourse

Ricercare ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
Mariia Mykhalonok
Keyword(s):  
Online Media ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Frame Semantics ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The City

This article examines linguistic framing of Medellin as the city of the musical genre reggaeton in online media discourse, drawing on Fillmore’s frame semantics theory (1977). The most salient frames applied towards Medellin are those of centrality, home, and music, whereby the city’s global significance as a musical hub is emphasized through the terms belonging to the frame of world. The use of components from the frames of crime and drugs suggests that the drug-related past of Medellin is integrated into its new cultural profile. Another part of the new Medellin brand are the city’s residents themselves, who are credited with supporting local reggaetonero/as, and are typically referred to with overtly positive vocabulary from the frames of love, help, and home. Although some texts evoke negative stereotypes about reggaeton, the media mostly present the Medellin reggaeton scene through the frames of success, power, and business.

scholarly journals Youth perspective on social media discourse on “Lazy Nigerian Youths” conversations

INFORMASI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Nkiru Comfort Ezeh ◽  
Augustine Godwin Mboso
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Youth Perspective

The Social Media has emerged as a new platform for discourses. It has no doubt provided people with easier and faster accessibility to information and has become an outlet for them to share their views on socio-political issues. It has also been observed that negative and hate comments seem to dominate on social networks used for social and political communication. Anchored on Public Sphere Theory, focus group discussions were conducted with undergraduate youths in South-east Nigeria examined on the issue of President Mohammadu Buhari’s referring to Nigerian youths as lazy, while speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on 18th April 2018. This article, therefore, explored the opinions advanced in the discourse based on the principles of freedom of expression and responsibility. The study suggests that while Twitter platform was more objective in the discussion of the issue of the day because it allows the use of filters to ensure that contents posted on the platform adhere strictly to rules and fair usage; Facebook and Whatsapp trailed with abuses and hate comments. The study recommended that owners of blogs and media houses who now post their contents on the social media should coordinate comments on such platforms and continue developing mechanisms that work to regulate the quality of posted content.

scholarly journals The Spanish King’s Christmas Messages as a Ritual Genre of Institutional Discourse: A Comparative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Marina M. Raevskaya ◽  
Irina V. Selivanova
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Institutional Discourse ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Major Purpose ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Main Instrument ◽  
Scientific Value

The article deals with the Christmas messages of two Spanish monarchs, Juan Carlos I and Philip VI, issued from 1975 to 2018. These texts are considered to be a ritual genre of institutional discourse and are analyzed in the context of political rhetoric. Since the restoration of the monarchy in Spain in 1975, the Spanish King’s Christmas messages are thought to be the main instrument of communication of the Head of State with his citizens. Although they do not have any legal status and belong to the realm of customs and traditions, these speeches receive wide media coverage because they are one of the few occasions when the monarch addresses the Spanish people on television. This paper highlights the idea that the messages are ideologically driven and politically motivated since their major purpose is to strengthen the image of the monarchy and to convince people of the necessity and advantages of peaceful coexistence, respect for the law, and national pride. The article also focuses on the images of the past, the future, the speaker, the addressee (Spanish society), and the country. The scientific value of this paper is in providing a comparative analysis of the communicative potential of the Christmas speeches issued by Juan Carlos I and Felipe VI. It was revealed that the two monarchs appealed to the same values and feelings of their people. Juan Carlos I and Felipe VI underlined the importance of peaceful coexistence in Spain, a highly democratic country where the monarch is the symbol of its unity and permanence. As for linguistic aspects, the speeches comply with the rules of classical oratory and are characterized by a set of common features: for instance, both monarchs employ the same rhetorical devices and communicative strategies in order to impact the audience and make the message more direct and influential. Nevertheless, Felipe VI makes his messages more personal, emotional and appealing, in comparison with the messages of his predecessor. The authors described invariant and variative features of the Christmas speeches issued by two Spanish monarchs taking into account some differences which can be explained by the social, economic and political context of modern Spain.

scholarly journals Determining the proximity of groups in social networks based on text analysis using big data

2019 ◽  
pp. 521-526
Author(s):  
A S Mukhin ◽  
I A Rytsarev ◽  
R A Paringer ◽  
A V Kupriyanov ◽  
D V Kirsh
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Text Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information Research ◽  
Definition Of

The article is devoted to the definition of such groups in social networks. The object of the study was selected data social network Vk. Text data was collected, processed and analyzed. To solve the problem of obtaining the necessary information, research was conducted in the field of optimization of data collection of the social network Vk. A software tool that provides the collection and subsequent processing of the necessary data from the specified resources has been developed. The existing algorithms of text analysis, mainly of large volume, were investigated and applied.

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