scholarly journals ON SEVERAL RECURRENT THEMES AND CONCEPTS IN SCOTTISH BALLADS

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2 (24)) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Arpineh Madoyan
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The Media ◽  
Inherent Nature ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
The Given ◽  
Factual Data

The present article seeks to study the concepts of “love” and “homeland” from linguistic and cultural perspectives. Within the frames of the article an attempt is made to elucidate these concepts in Scottish ballads and media. The article also dwells upon the inherent nature of the aforementioned concepts as underlying units of Scottish culture since concepts as such reflect the mental activities of language speakers. The concepts of “love” and “homeland” embody crucial values and images common to any linguo-culture. The linguo-cultural analysis of factual data taken from folk texts (Scottish ballads) and media discourse (articles) sheds light upon not only the lexical actualization but also modern perception of the given concepts. The choice of the material is conditioned by the necessity to highlight their diachronic evolution and their importance in contemporary research. A special reference is made to the media coverage of the Scottish Independence referendum, which illustrates Scots’ attitude towards their ethnic identity and their country as a whole.

The “Rape of Europe”: 2016 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Cologne in hegemonic discourse of Russian media

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Tatiana Riabova ◽  
Oleg Riabov
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
The West ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Year’S Eve ◽  
The Eu

The article deals with the Russian media coverage of sexual assaults against women during the 2016 New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne. The authors examine it in the frame of discourse of “Gayropa” that represents the EU via changes in gender order of the West European societies. The pro-Kremlin media coverage of the “Rape of Europe” contributes to positioning Russia in the world, maintaining power legitimacy in the country, and supporting gender order in Russian society. The media discourse treats it as an evidence of decline of the European civilization.

scholarly journals Functional Features of Onomastic Units in the Military Discourse of the Donbass Conflict

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-250
Author(s):  
Valery A. Amirov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Military Discourse ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
The Media ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
The Military

The article explores the modalities and features of onomastic units in the media coverage of the Eastern Ukraine military conflict in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Based on large empirical data of printed and online publications in Russian and Ukrainian media reporting on the hostilities in Donbass extensively for several years, the author has collected, classified, and analyzed the corpus of onomastic units of the military media discourse. These include place names, such as Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), Luganda, Donbabwe, Debaltsevo pocket, Ilovaysk pocket, ORDLO (“separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions”), Novorossiya, “Odessa Khatyn,” as well as the nicknames of field commanders that have become deeply associated with the conflict — Motorola, Bes, Givi. The study examines functional aspects of proper names usage in the media, and their role in shaping a general picture of the Donbass armed conflict for the readers. A special emphasis is made on the weight of onomastic units (militaronyms, toponyms, and anthroponyms) as constructive elements of the military discourse in Eastern Ukraine. In this regard, the presented analysis and its results can contribute to further studies of the media discourse related to armed conflicts of various etiologies and intensities.

scholarly journals Scotland's Referendum and the Media

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
General Election ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
International Context ◽  
British Identity ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
The Uk

On 18 September 2014, a referendum took place in Scotland to determine the question of Scottish independence. Soon after, the independence issue recurred strongly as a topic in the UK general election of May 2015. This volume examines the media coverage of the referendum, analyzing how it was reported and structured in the media in Scotland, the wider United Kingdom, and in other parts of the world which had a direct interest in the outcome. In twenty chapters encompassing a rich variety of perspectives, scholars, commentators and journalists from Scotland, the rest of Britain, Europe, Canada and Australia examine how the media across the world presented the debate. By exploring how the media in their particular nations constructed coverage of the Scottish political debate, contributors from outside the UK illuminate a range of attitudes to nationalism and separatism in various countries which saw significance for themselves in the Scottish case. The book’s investigation of the shifting nature of Scottish – and British - identity thus revealed is thereby placed in an emphatically international context, alongside specific contributions from England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as Scotland itself. The consequences of the referendum are traced in the media until the aftermath of the May general election of 2015.

scholarly journals Mainstream Media Discourse! Or the Divine Word of the Postmodern?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-73
Author(s):  
Yasser Rhimi
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Investigative Reporting ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Objective Truth ◽  
Exponential Increase ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ultimate Ground

Abstract This paper calls into question the growing tendency of quasi-absolutism within postmodern mainstream media discourse under the guise of objectivity. The tendency’s major aim is to ascribe more believability to its discourse by re-presenting that which it covers as the vehicle of objective truth to the mainstream audience. Two interweaving discourses have marked such objectivity: one in the form of indoctrinating and omnipresent narratives, which via effective propaganda become tantamount to ritualism, the other epitomised in the nostalgia for rationalisation, already inherent in western positivist thought through the exponential increase of quasi-empiricism (e.g. investigative reporting or speculative statistics). Accordingly, what the media cover exists. What they do not remains in the order of myth. The article starts by rethinking objectivity within modern western academia, a discourse whose objectivity is already flawed from within. Then, with respect to human experience and media coverage, the paper concludes by raising the question of postmodern mainstream media’s substitution of religious quasi-absolutist narratives, be they secular or non-secular. Subjectivity thus emerges as the ultimate ground upon which our being may be legitimate.

scholarly journals The Coronavirus Pandemic in the Conceptual Sphere of Media Discourse in Russia and China: a Survival Strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-93
Author(s):  
Irina Erofeeva ◽  
Yulia Tolstokulakova ◽  
Alexey Muravyov
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
The Media

The article presents the results of a research into the problem of implementing cognitive models in processing information on the new coronavirus pandemic by Russian and Chinese mass media. The study involved a linguo-cultural analysis, a content analysis and a discourse analysis of publications in the period of March–June, 2020. The study is aimed at identifying and characterizing the concepts and communication semiotic resources of the media discourse used to present this information. The authors analyze over 600 texts of various genres and formats in Russian and Chinese media. The interpretative method helps to see the link between a media text and its social context, as well as between the interpretation of a fact in media discourse and the author’s and reader’s world models. According to the results of the study, processing and spreading any information, namely — the infodemic, or misinforming the public about the virus, involves a deliberate use of immanent concepts typical of members of a particular culture. The prevalent information flows about COVID-19 cause fear and trigger the instinct of self-preservation. In this context, it is the archetypes of the culture that are becoming the key remedy providing for modelling a culture-marked image of the country in the media landscape. The frames «weak body» and «death», and the theme of humans' vulnerability to the new threat have made people think about the purpose and values of life. The basic cognitive models in processing the frightening information are the core Chinese and Russian culture concepts, namely, collectivism, family, and good. The awakened cognitive stereotypes are aimed at preserving the social immunity of the country. The results of the study can be useful for fundamental interdisciplinary researches into basic cultural realias objectified in the media and in the works of journalists and other authors.

scholarly journals Representation of migrants in the Russian mass media and its dynamics (2010-2020)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-40
Author(s):  
Olga A. Iakimova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
High Level

Over the last decades, scholars have reported a high level of xenophobia in Russia, which persists and spreads amidst all strata of the population. This shows the significance of the migration issue in the country and its topicality in the public discourse. However, the explanatory models used to analyze the perception of immigrants in Western countries do not find absolute empirical support in Russia. For this reason, researchers emphasize the importance of media discourse as a leading factor in constructing attitudes toward the foreign migrants in Russia. We take into account, firstly, the persistence of xenophobic attitudes among Russians, and secondly — the role of the migrants’ image, constructed by mass media, in shaping the perception of the immigrants among the locals. In this regard, this article hypothesizes that despite the official ban of the “hate language” and ethnization of crime, the negative representation of immigrants not only persists in the Russian media discourse, but is unfortunately increasing. To test this hypothesis, we utilize the results of research on the representation of immigration in Russian media discourse published between 2010 and 2020, which we analyze in the methodological framework of critical discourse analysis. We conclude that at the end of the current decade, there have been certain improvements in the media coverage of the migration issue, caused by the shift of the spotlight onto other problems, thus, the negative images of immigrants simply were not a part of the media agenda. On the one hand, this can help reduce ethnic tensions, although on the other, it complicates the development of the culture of interaction between the local and immigrant communities, since the national and cultural characteristics of migrants and their experience of living in Russia remain underrepresented in the media.

scholarly journals MEDIA DISCOURSE IN THE CONTEXT OF VALUES STUDY

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 246-250
Author(s):  
Tatiana Prisyazhnyuk ◽  
Elena Zilova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Cognitive Modeling ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Componential Analysis ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Media

In the study of mass communication, there has been much debate as to what extent the media can influence the audience. Instead of merely reviewing existing findings in the field, this article aims at searching for some new aspects to the problem.  Previously, the study of Media Discourse was mainly restricted to the role of the media in the context of political or social sphere.  This research offers to study the issue within a broader multidisciplinary framework involving such macrostructures as society, the mass media, language, and cognition.The primary objective of the research is to define Media Discourse in the context of the study of values representation. The methods employed in the research are: discourse analysis, linguo-cognitive modeling, componential analysis, and contrastive linguo-cultural analysis. Modern Russian and British media texts were randomly selected for analysis building a corpus of 200 items. In connection with Media Discourse, at least three types of values should be distinguished: discourse values or discourse qualities; values endemic to a particular society, and broadcast by the media in order to cultivate national identity; specific media values generated by certain media, which in many instances can be viewed as “anti-values.” The research findings claim that this trend can be observed both in the Russian and British Media Discourse. 

scholarly journals Closed Churches during the Pandemic: Liberal versus Conservative and Christian versus Atheist Argumentation in Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-243
Author(s):  
Terézia Rončáková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Religious Perspective ◽  
The Media ◽  
Comparison Arguments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Conservative Media

The current COVID-19 pandemic has led to the introduction of various epidemiological measures, including the ban on public worship. The problem of closed churches has become an intensely debated subject across several countries and a hotly debated question in recent media discourse. This paper provides an analysis of the arguments presented on the subject of closed churches by the media in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. In addition to the detailed analysis of the argumentation used, it also presents a twofold comparison: arguments presented in liberal versus conservative media, and arguments presented in the Slovak media versus Czech media. Twenty-eight years ago, these two countries were part of one state and after the split, the countries became a model of a peaceful dissolution (the so-called ‘velvet divorce’). However, from a religious perspective, they are quite different: whereas Slovakia is one of the most Christian (Catholic) countries, the Czech Republic is one of the most atheist countries in Europe. Three research dimensions are presented as part of this study: (1) media argumentation on the problem of closed churches; (2) comparison of liberal versus conservative arguments; (3) comparison of the media coverage in a strongly Christian country versus a strongly atheist country.

scholarly journals The identity phenomenon in the media culture of the 60s of the XX century

Arta ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
Alexandru Bohantov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Media Culture ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Fundamental Feature ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Given

The seventh decade of the XX century of the communist regime is significant in many ways. First of all, it is through the brief “liberalization” of the political, social and cultural life of the former Soviet country, which followed the Stalinist frost of sadness. Nonetheless, the ideological constraints in the field of culture and the media have not completely disappeared. A fundamental feature of the research paradigm of British cultural studies explains that no cultural-artistic practice or cultural product can be understood out of context that is why the study of identity dimensions of media culture in the given period requires a complex grid of analysis. The factual state of culture in general, but also of media communication in particular, can be fully understood only if we proceed to a deconstruction of the mechanisms of propagandistic transfiguration of “socialist reality” and of the cultural or media discourse in the society of those times.

scholarly journals Precedent Onyms in Religious Phraseological Units in the Spanish Language (On the Transition from the Phraseological Units with Precedent Onyms to the Precedent Phenomenon)

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Aliyeva Rena Mirzababa
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Cognitive Semantics ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Semantic Extension ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Given ◽  
Semantic Aspect

The article deals with the matter of precedent onyms in religios phraseological units in the Spanish language. The task of the given article is to look through the samples on the given phenomenon.Religious phraseological units in the Spanish language are analyzed from lexical and componential points of view.The linguistic or the semantic aspect of cognitivism, i.e. the mental identity of a native speaker can be distinctly observed in the phraseological units of the Spanish language. So, the evaluation of religious phraseological units of the Spanish language from the prism of new analysis of cognitive semantics suggests that native speakers enjoy the privilege of transmitting information through certain word-codes and very often there is a certain parallelism, more precisely, commonness with cognate languages, particularly, with the languages of peoples of the same religion.The religious phraseological units have meanings different from their initial semantic capacity due to the semantic extension in the succeeding phrases, and these meanings are consistent with linguo-pragmatic condition of the media discourse in which a religious phraseological unit is practiced.In the Spanish political, economic and media discourse, the religious phraseological units such as El Festín de Baltasar have gained additional connotations through semantic reassessment, and it is possible to conclude that this connotation has not only situational and contextual essence but also has acquired wide and general usage rather than occasional.

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