scholarly journals LEXICAL-SEMANTIC AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF NEOLOGISM FORMATION IN MEDIA TEXTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (87) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iryna Voloshchuk ◽  
◽  
Valeriia Nalyvaiko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Organized Activities ◽  
The Media ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Translation Methods ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Political Vocabulary

The article is devoted to actual problems of the functioning and translation of neologisms in the media texts of the modern English-language press. In the course of the study, the definition of “media text” is given. The stylistic features of English-language media texts are characterized. It is noted that the language of English-language media texts has certain features and is aimed at certain categories of readers. During the analysis of English-language media, a direct relationship between the degree of complexity of the selected language tools and the sociocultural specific features of the target audience is proved. It was emphasized that most of the specific vocabulary in English-language media is socio-political vocabulary. Political texts are connected with the task of simultaneously and clearly conveying the events of the world of politics, and not overly complicating and overloading the message with various terms that would interfere with its understanding. Consequently, journalists often resort to the use of neologisms. The concepts of neologisms and their typology are considered. It is noted that there are various parameters for the definition of the term “neology”: the process of creating new lexical units is built in accordance with the usual mechanisms of the creative process in the development of speech; theoretical and applied research on the creation of lexical units, ways of forming words, criteria for recognition, acceptance and dissemination of neologisms, sociocultural aspects of neology; systematically organized activities of institutes for accounting, creating, recording, disseminating and introducing neologisms into a clear framework of language policy; the task of establishing new terminology systems and recently created industries that have gaps in terminology and require its implementation; a lexicographic system of relations with dictionaries, which proceeds from two aspects: using the dictionary as a filtering tool for recognizing neologisms and analyzing their processing inside dictionaries. The functional features of the use of neologisms in the media text are considered. The results of the analysis allow us to conclude that neologisms are quite common in newspaper texts, are reflected in articles of various subjects (economic, business, entertainment, youth press, etc.), creating in each of them its own stylistic effect. It is noted that the transfer of neologisms in the Ukrainian language is carried out using such translation methods as assimilation, descriptive translation, tracing, transcribing, transliteration.

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 Jak wyhaczyć kolesia - czyli o języku prasy młodzieżowej refleksje lingwistyczno-dydaktyczne

2009 ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Danuta Jastrzębska-Golonka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Young Reader ◽  
The Past ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
The Media ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Generation

The article presents some issues connected with colloquialisms used in youth magazines. It introduces a comprehensive definition of a colloquial language, discusses factors shaping the media language, inter alia a new generation of journalists, media marketing assumptions, and features of youth gobbledygook. Moreover, the article analyzes the language of texts targeting a young reader and indicates the most essential features of a sphere of lexis, phraseology, wordformation and semantics on the basis of excerpted examples. It provides evidence for the changes that have occurred in the language of youth magazines in the past nine years (inter alia, English language expansion and vulgarisms). Next, it discusses the issues of youth culture and its linguistic implications as well as the issue of pop culture in school didactics.

scholarly journals CONSTITUTIVE EVALUATIVE CONCEPTS IN CRIMINAL LAW: CONCEPT, TYPES, FUNCTIONS, ESSENTIAL FEATURES

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-458
Author(s):  
D.R. Kasimov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
New Classification ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Cognitive Meaning

The article provides a new classification of evaluative concepts enshrined in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, indicates the purpose of its existence in the doctrine of criminal law. The article describes the definition of constitutive evaluative concepts that are determined as legislatively vague evaluative concepts that, by their normative-essential and functionally-substantive characteristics, are absolute, necessarily alternative, or accompanying structural features of a crime. Through the prism of the features of constitutive evaluative concepts, their varieties, essential features and functions are distinguished; interpretation (including cognitive) meaning is revealed. Moreover, the interpretation features of these evaluative concepts are considered in two interdependent aspects: the structurally-essential (associated with the types, attributes and functions of constitutive evaluative concepts) and the procedural-substantive (associated with the informative and informative activities of the interpreter). It is indicated that the interpretation features of an structurally-essential nature are, firstly, in the composition and criminogenic properties of constitutive evaluative concepts, and secondly, in the semantic structural composition, indicating a meaningful dependence of the evaluative concept on the accompanying structural features of a crime, and thirdly, legally significant functional features. At the same time, interpretative features of a procedural-substantive order are also highlighted, which include, firstly, the need for a paramount definition of the criminogenic determinant, designed to establish the structural features of a crime in a perfect act, and secondly, in an increased degree of normative casuistic derivative of these evaluative concepts. The author comes to the conclusion that constitutive evaluative concepts are interpreted according to the same logical-linguistic and legal laws, but with some marked structurally meaningful features.

scholarly journals Image Actualization of the First Lady Within the Framework of Image Stereotyping of the President in the Media (Exemplified by the 43rd and 45th US Presidents and Their Wives)

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Bogdan Gasanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
The Media ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Guardian

This article aims to reveal the specifics of the actualization of the family image within the framework of image stereotyping of a politician in mass media. For several decades, mass media discourse has been paying special attention to the personal lives of political leaders and opinion leaders, satisfying the needs of readers eager to learn what they are like in everyday life and personal relationships. This study provides a definition of the concept of a politician’s communicative behaviour, shaping his speech portrait, which is to a large extent formed through the media. The speech portrait is made up of the politician’s rhetoric (either conservative or liberal) implemented in public speeches. At the same time, a politician’s image often depends on mass media, more precisely, on their attitude towards him/her, the narration about the politician’s family playing an important role in this. The empirical material of this study includes newspaper articles of the English-language periodicals The Guardian and Politico from 2009–2020, writing about the presidents Donald Trump and George W. Bush and their family members. These periodicals are of interest due to their political orientation, within the framework of which the images of these politicians and their family members are shaped. Turning to comparative analysis, the author identified the relationship between a politician’s image and the representation of his family members in the press. In addition, discourse analysis was used, logically supplemented with linguoculturological and sociopragmalinguistic modelling of communicative interaction. The research found that mass media discourse presents the politicians’ family life through the representation of their wives, often with gender stereotyping. Moreover, there is a clear process of delimiting the spouses in newspaper discourse, i.e. the image of a politician does not always affect the image of his wife, which means that they are viewed independently from each other.

scholarly journals Literary reminiscences in the media texts as means of popularization reading

2019 ◽  
pp. 84-89
Author(s):  
V. Khmil-Chupryna
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Social Communications ◽  
History Of ◽  
Powerful Stimulus ◽  
The Media ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
History Of Journalism

Literary reminiscences are often used in journalistic texts. They can be implemented into journalistic materials in various forms: it may be a reference to a literary work, characters, other images, or citation of the text. Literary reminiscences are used by the authors of journalistic materials primarily to enhance the emotivity and expressiveness of the text. However, along with this, they also perform an important function of culture transferring. A correlation of literary reminiscences with genres has been traced and it is noted that such technique is most often found in the journalistic genres of art and journalism, in particular in essays, blogs and authors’ columns. The mention of writers’ names, famous characters or the use of fragments of literary works is connected with the functional features of these journalistic genres. The author of a journalistic text, introducing literary reminiscences to it, appeals to the reader’s basic knowledge of literature and, consequently, makes him remember something known, or refer to reference sources to find out the unknown. Literary reminiscences not only update the basic knowledge of the fiction reader, but also become a powerful stimulus for their expansion. Thus, propaganda and popularization of reading are taking place. In the process of research, in addition to general scientific methods, a descriptive and comparative methods have been used. The scientific novelty of the study is that literary reminiscences in journalistic texts are considered in the aspect of reading popularization for the first time. The study may complement the curricula of the courses “Theory and History of Journalism”, “Mass Communication and Information”, “Practical Stylistics”, “Publicism”, “Theory of Social Communications” in the aspect of the role of media in the popularization of reading. Prospect for the further research is a more detailed analysis of literary reminiscences in the media texts, in particular, the search for references to works of Ukrainian literature.

scholarly journals SEMANTIC PROSODY OF THE LEMMA VACCINE IN THE MEDIA TEXTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 42-46
Author(s):  
O. Sivaeva
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Semantic Prosody ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Contextual Meaning

This paper discusses the results of the corpus-based analysis of the semantic prosody of collocations with VACCINE in the broadsheet ‘The Guardian’. The corpus has been processed with the help of Sketch Engine. Text passages containing collocations with VACCINE have been interpreted in order to state the prosody mode of the collocation in the context. The study mostly pays attention to the nouns modified by VACCINE as most frequently used in the me­dia texts. The dictionary definition of VACCINE defines it as a word with positive semantic prosody. The discourse analysis demonstrates that collocations containing the lemma VACCINE can have positive, negative or neutral semantic colouring, which depends on the contextual meaning of the analyzed passage and which is also based on the semantic prosody mode of other words in the passage, which actually designates and presupposes the mode of the collocations in question. The nouns supply, safety, mask, uptake, access, protection, production, certification used in ‘The Guardian’ articles, having positive semantic prosody in the pattern noun + VACCINE, in general create a positive metaphorical image and defense from Covid-19. However, the nouns hesitancy, misinformation, avail­ability and skepticism possessing negative semantic prosody, are mostly used to describe people’s unwillingness to get vaccinated and their doubts about the effectiveness of the procedure. Collocations with type, mechanism, distribution, usage and VACCINE have a neutral semantic prosody, which shows that such collocations are used in text passages in the surrounding of neither positive nor negative words and the whole passage serves as a state­ment of some facts without being evaluated.

The Ideological Pursuit of Ecology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian P. Sorace
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Ecological Civilization ◽  
Developmental Constraints ◽  
Protection Forest ◽  
Ecological Society ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
The Media ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Earthquake Zone ◽  
Political Vocabulary

This chapter introduces a relatively new concept in the Chinese Communist Party's political vocabulary: “ecological civilization” (shengtai wenming), which offers a new metric of development apart from growth. Several years before the Sichuan earthquake, Qingchuan County was promoted by local officials and the media as an ecological society and an experimental pioneer in rethinking development in ecological terms. Qingchuan's ecological consciousness and dialectical strategy of protecting the environment and advancing the economy were said to differentiate it from other agricultural counties. This new discourse transformed Qingchuan's developmental constraints into political advantages. Among the most remote and impoverished counties in the earthquake zone, Qingchuan designed a reconstruction plan that would capitalize on environmental protection, forest conservation, and green modes of agricultural production. Using the case of Qingchuan, the chapter highlights the enormous obstacles for recasting not only production practices but also the very definition of economic development.

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 Evaluation in media texts: A cross-cultural linguistic investigation

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 673-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
LILY CHEN
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Chinese Texts ◽  
Interpretative Approach ◽  
The Uk ◽  
China Daily

A quantitative/interpretative approach to the comparative linguistic analysis of media texts is proposed and applied to a contrastive analysis of texts from the English-language China Daily and the UK Times to look for evidence of differences in what Labov calls “evaluation.” These differences are then correlated to differences in the roles played by the media in Britain and China in their respective societies. The aim is to demonstrate that, despite reservations related to the Chinese texts not being written in the journalists' native language, a direct linguistic comparison of British media texts with Chinese media texts written in English can yield valuable insights into the workings of the Chinese media that supplement nonlinguistic studies.

scholarly journals Discursive Construal of Current Events in Russian and English Language Media in the Light of Linguistic Security

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
Valentina Tyrygina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Possible World ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Internet Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Events ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Modern Era

The article examines a number of issues pertaining to how reality can be discursively presented in media texts. The modern era is characterized by the rapidly increasing influence of the media on the socio-political changes taking place in the world. The media frequently model events and phenomena around us, and this type of activity is associated with actively transforming reality and constructing a new reality, media reality. All this inevitably raises the question how authentically or accurately the world is represented or reflected in the media. In structuralist studies, the representation in the media is not a key problem and thus is only partially touched upon. In critical linguistics, however, where the concept of biased, distorted, prejudiced representation of reality in discourse is introduced, this problem becomes central. The linguistic approach to the analysis of media reality is based on the idea of discursive construal of the world, which derives from the concept of social design of the world. The purpose of the study presented in this article is to examine the names of subjects or attributes associated with the same facts and events but featured in different Internet media. Using the method of comparative analysis of alternative nominations, the author analyzes media texts from Russian, Belarusian, European, and American sites, and the results of the analysis confirm the fact of alternativeness in the reality representation in the media discourse. The theoretical significance of the results lies in confirming the idea that the choice of nomination is directly related to the creation of the “possible world” and thus contributing to the field of cognitive, discursive, and critical linguistics. The practical value of the results lies in their possible introduction into relevant university courses.

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