scholarly journals LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE ‘SCIENTIST’S SPIRIT’ IMAGE IN CHINESE AND RUSSIAN MEDIA DISCOURSES (EXAMPLIFIED BY NEWS ARTICLES)

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-87
Author(s):  
V.G. Morgun
Keyword(s):  
Media Discourse ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Text Formation ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Linguistic Means ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The article provides a comprehensive study of the mechanism of functioning of language tools in the process of text formation, and presents the results of studying the image of the ‘scientist’s spirit’ in modern media discourse on the example of Chinese and Russian news articles. The analysis of empirical material has shown that when representing the spirit of a scientist, general (epithet, metaphor, hyperbole/litotes, lexical repetition, syntactic parallelism, gradation, homogeneous parts of the sentence, parenthetic constructions) and particular for Chinese media discourse (comparison, inversion, parcellation, question-and-answer form of presentation) linguistic means prevail.

scholarly journals Distinctive features of motherhood discourse in Russian media

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-231
Author(s):  
Anna A. Kuvychko
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Political Media ◽  
Media Discourses

This study of modern media devoted to the problems of motherhood discourse is significant and relevant due to both the axiological nature of motherhood phenomenon and socio-cultural features of the existing (present day) media space. Problems of motherhood are of enduring importance. The variety of issues concerning motherhood raised in modern media indicate the relevance and importance of all manifestations of this phenomenon for contemporary society. The purpose of the present study is to identify and reveal the features of media discourse of motherhood in socio-political media (which is a product of cognitive activity of modern Russian society) through the category of interdiscursivity. The material for this research was obtained from media texts of Internet versions of Russian socio-political media Arguments and Facts, Izvestia, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Moskovsky Komsomolets, and Kommersant, published from 2001 to 2019. The research methodology includes content analysis of online publications, classification and systematization of the research material: media texts, media text studies and description of media discourse on motherhood in the form of a cognitive structure (concept sphere). The present study is the first attempt to interpret maternal media discourse through the category of interdiscursiveness, a fusion of various discourses. The author presents media discourse on motherhood in contemporary Russian socio-political media as a combination of institutional media discourses (political, economic, legal, medical, and religious), each manifesting its own aims and using own linguistic means of presenting information. This approach to describing media discourse emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the study and indicates the relevance of its results for various fields of scientific knowledge, primarily journalism and cognitive linguistics.

scholarly journals Representation of “Other” in Russian and German Media Discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01177
Author(s):  
Marina Milovanova ◽  
Marina Svinkina
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
German Newspaper ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Linguistic Means

The article is devoted to the opposition “we vs. they” in Russian and German linguistic cultures. Analysis of linguistic means representing this opposition allows identifying the national and cultural specificity of perception of the identified phenomena in nonrelative linguistic cultures. It is shown that the most frequently used strategies in the Russian and German media discourse are alteration and empathization. The most popular tactics and communicative turns of the particular strategies of representation of the “other” were exposed in the both media discourses. The discourse and contrastive analysis of Russian and German newspaper texts is used as the research method.

scholarly journals The Image of China in the Linguistic-Informational Model of Modern Media Discourse (Based on Russian and Chinese Mass Media)

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-53
Author(s):  
Irina Karabulatova ◽  
◽  
Margarita Lagutkina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Informational Model ◽  
Hieroglyphic Writing ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media

This article analyses the linguistic-informational model of the representation of the image of China in Russian and Chinese media discourse today. When screening Russian and Chinese sources, the authors applied contextual analysis (with an emphasis on the implicit content of the country’s media image), descriptive method, method of cultural interpretation, and content analysis. In the current situation of information and psychological wars (term by A.P. Skovorodnikov), using the image of a country becomes the starting point in the mass media matrix of the onomastic concept for accentuating the perception of the geopolitical toponym (geopolitonym). For the first time, the authors propose the notion of a mass media matrix of an onomastic concept for understanding the cognitive side of media images of geopolitonymic objects. The geopolitonym China does not just form a virtual image of the country in media discourse, but also acts as a multidimensional construct of the linguistic worldview in the producer–recipient system. In onomastics, the geopolitonym traditionally denotes names of countries, regions, and significant historical areas that have an impact on human awareness in a civilizational context. The media image of a country is a topologically-oriented multi-layer model of the territory for the recipients of the media discourse. The authors clarify O.N. Sorokina’s concept of the information model, highlighting the linguistic component that was and remains the leading one in media discourse. Furthermore, the authors introduce the concepts of linguoinforneme and linguistic-informational step from the point of view of the structure of the linguistic-informational model. The linguistic-informational model, according to the authors’ suggestion, is implemented in linguoinfornemes using the strategy of linguistic-informational steps. The linguoinforneme constructs a media image of the country in a certain accentological assessment, based on social demand. We found that china’s media image is presented in Russian media discourse in a variety of ways, being implemented in evaluative linguoinfornemes. The country’s media image in Chinese media is constructed based on the traditions of hieroglyphic writing. The authors show what the mythologized/realistic perception of the image of China is based on, how it is conditioned by the tasks of the Communist Party of China, how it is related to the strategies of Russian-Chinese cooperation, and how it affects intercultural communication.

scholarly journals Implementation of Ethnic Identity in the Media Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
Liliya V. Kopot
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Semantic Approach ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Mass Information

The article aims to describe the specifics of the verbal implementation of ethnic identity in the Russian media discourse. The relevance of the work is due to the anthropocentric approach to linguistics, based on interdisciplinary connections with philosophy, cultural studies, literary studies, anthropology, etc., which significantly enriches the linguistic study of identity in the media discourse. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the question of understanding media discourse as a verbal and informational continuum, in the space of which specific units are functioning, containing ethnocultural meanings and participating in the formation of the ethnic identity of a particular community. The significance for the theory of language is determined by the fact that extended and justified interpretations of the concepts “ethnicity” and “ethnic identity” are presented. The main parameters of the implementation of ethnic identity in the media discourse are established. The main lexical and semantic means that construct selfidentification in the modern media discourse were analyzed. And also, the accompanying markers of mass information discourse are highlighted. Within the framework of the structural-semantic approach, the following methods were used: discourse analysis, contextual, definitional, and continuous sampling. The results obtained can be used in a course of lectures on ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguoculturology.

scholarly journals Sarcastic evaluation in mass media as a way of discrediting a person: Greta Thunberg case

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Mikhailovna Konyaeva ◽  
Anastasiya Aleksandrovna Samsonova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The One ◽  
Linguistic Means

The article is devoted to the analysis of a sarcastic evaluation of a person, which leads to their discrediting in media texts. Sarcastic evaluation is considered in terms of linguistic praxeology: the language and compositional means of nomination, description, and actions are analyzed. In a media text, these means interact with the means of expressing the category of deviance and forming semantic nodes. The category of deviance can manifest itself, on the one hand, in exuberance or the absurd, while on the other, in simplification or insufficiency of the sign revelation. Also, specific sarcastic speech techniques are identified. They are based on the discrepancy of referent and illocutionary meanings in the person’s speech portrait. The study of Russian media discourse about Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg revealed the active use of linguistic means expressing sarcastic evaluation to demonstrate the opposing viewpoint in relation to the transmitted semantic position of “Other”. When the media represents Greta in the totality of her disadvantages, this enters into a polemic against those who support the ideas of this person. With the help of sarcasm, the media shows the absurdness and failure of these ideas. In this case, a sarcastic evaluation becomes an instrument of discrediting not only the person him/herself, but also his/her views and associates. Linguistic means of sarcastic evaluation are widely represented in discrediting media texts. The most important of them are means such as absurdity, hyperbole, alogism, simplification, etc.

The Relevance of the Concept of "Russian Language" in Russian Media Discourse (for example, "the Russian Newspaper" for the 2014–2015)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-14
Author(s):  
Эльмесова ◽  
L. Elmesova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Political World ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Russian Media

In contemporary Russian media discourse and the actual frequency is the phrase "Russian language". Unlike dictionary meanings, interpreting the phrase "Russian language" as the language of the Russian nation, in the discourse of this concept is conceptualized. Contextual use of the phrase in modern media discourse adds their dictionary meanings and expands its conceptual field. Therefore, we can speak about the formation and functioning of the modern media concept of "Russian language", which also becomes the part of the political world of modern Russia.

scholarly journals Metaphors in Media Discourse on Migration

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Narkiz K. Moullagaliev ◽  
Lyutsiya G. Khismatullina
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
Media Discourses

<p>The paper deals with the problems of cognitive linguistic discourse and comparative analysis studies of metaphor as a means of representing migration in mass media. It presents the most productive metaphoric models, shaping the concept of “migration”, that function in printed and electronic media discourses of Great Britain, USA and Russia in 2016-2017. A comparative analysis of metaphorical models representing migration in British, American and Russian media discourses has shown that in media discourses on the migration of 2016-2017, regularly three high-frequency and productive metaphorical models operate: hydronymic, military and morbid. Images of these metaphorical models are united by vectors of anxiety, despair, threats to life and have negative conceptual potential.</p>

Chinese Media Discourses on the Global Order

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Chin-Chuan Lee
Keyword(s):  
Global Order ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Media Discourses

Chinese Media Discourses on the Global Order

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Chin-Chuan Lee
Keyword(s):  
Global Order ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Media Discourses

War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 723-745
Author(s):  
Olga A. Solopova ◽  
Svetlana L. Kushneruk
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Research ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Negative Images ◽  
Diachronic Analysis ◽  
Foreign Media ◽  
Media Discourses

The paper focuses on diachronic framing analysis of Russias images in British media discourse. The importance of the research is determined by a need to work out adequate linguistic foundations to counteract information war, generated by some foreign media and aimed at distorting Russias history and eroding its spiritual values. Few scholars have drawn on any systematic research into analysis of Russias images in foreign media discourses of different historical spans. The major objective is to compare Russias images and their emotional charge in the British media in chronologically divided periods of war and peace under the influence of changing historical and ideological factors. The authors account for the mechanisms by which Russias images are framed and transformed in the contexts of the largest war of the XX century and the information war of the XXI century. The material comprises 500 samples per period. The data covering two historical spans are investigated through a framing approach. The criteria for diachronic analysis are dominant diagnostic and prognostic frames, constituting the macroframe WAR. The significant difference in Russias images in war- and peacetime consists in their emotive load: Russias contemporary negative images are contrasted to positive images activated in the retrospective period. The findings support the idea that British media discourse focusing on Russia is subject-centered: Russias image is determined by the geopolitical situation, Great Britains political priorities and objectives, and the bilateral relationship between the countries. The results can be used to further develop the linguistic basics of war theory.

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