scholarly journals To the question of studying the American mass media discourse on immigration

2020 ◽  
pp. 142-152
Author(s):  
Natalia Rostislavovna Kirichenko
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
Explicit Representations ◽  
The Subject

This article is dedicated to the analysis of discourse of the modern American mass media communication space dedicated to the subject field of immigration. The work describes the existing attitudes of mass media and population to the problem of immigration and immigrants, characterized by contradiction and polarization, as well as demonstrates various processes of stereotypization of perceptions on the migration discourse. The subject of this research is the current American mass media discourse on the topic of immigration. The main goal lies in determination of attitudes developed by the American mass media and society on the immigrants, which concepts are used for their description, and how it affects the social perception of such complex phenomenon as immigration. The article is structures on the basis of text interpretation of factual material, with application of two methods of discursive analysis: analysis of lexical means for determining explicit representations; and analysis of grammar structures for determining implicit meanings. The research displays that mass media accommodate different points of view, and at the present moment, the public space of American mass media indicates different types of discourse revealing polar understanding of immigration, The President of the country is one of those, who vividly expresses negative attitude to the problem of immigration and immigrants. On the other hand, the neoliberal discourse seems more neutral and even compassionate. Therefore, the trend of describing immigrants in negative connotations is reducing. Despite the attempts of country’s leadership to create a negative image of an immigrant, the analysis of contradictory attitude to them proves that the role of mass media in formation of public opinion is not as significant.

scholarly journals On the Open and Closed Space of Public Discourse

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leif Dahlberg
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Academic Discourses ◽  
Made In

Abstract The subject of this article is to investigate the notion and status of public discourse in contemporary media. The article opens with a reading of the trope the ‘open’ (das Offene) in Rainer Maria Rilke’s eighth Duineser Elegie and then discusses the meanings given to openess and public (Öffentlich, Öffentlichkeit) in the academic discourses of law, philosophy, political theory, and sociology. However, the principal focus of the article is on the artistic and political interventions by two Austrian artists, Otto Mittmannsgruber and Martin Strauß, made in commercialized public spaces in Austria and Germany during the years 1995-2004. Their artistic works directly address issues of power and public discourse, and effect both a questioning of unilinear mass media communication and a politicization of commercialized public space. In the article it is argued that the interventions of Mittmannsgruber and Strauß in commercial mass media make strikingly visible the simultaneously open and closed nature of contemporary public discourse.

scholarly journals Celebrity gossip as a genre in English-language mass media discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-418
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Ivanova ◽  
Gulnara Sharifullovna Khakimova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
English Language ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Celebrity Gossip ◽  
Theory Of Discourse

The multidimensionality of rumours as part and parcel of mass communication has stipulated the research in their linguistic nature. The present paper studies this specific communication phenomenon and the discursive practices by means of which it is realized across the Anglophone mass media discourse continuum. The theory of discourse-analysis underpinning the present paper predetermines an integrative approach with various methods employed. This approach makes it possible to gain an insight into the complex nature of the object under study. The research is targeted at media rumours, namely celebrity gossip, manifested in on-line versions of the printed press and original web outlets in 2015-2018. The main goal of the research is to reveal specific features of media rumors as a speech genre in the Anglophone media communication. Celebrity gossip texts make up the empiric material for the present study. This aim is achieved via the description of the content and form of the text-type structure supplemented by an application of stylistic analysis. In terms of the topics, the findings demonstrate a wide variety of topoi comprising both public (social interactions) and private spheres of celebrities’ life with an emphasis on privacy, sensationalism and scandalous impropriety as dominant discursive characteristics of the text-type samples under study. The structure of the celebrity gossip discourse is represented by texts in different journalistic forms: from informative genres to feature type variations used by authors as means of constructing celebrity culture. The information of trivial content and questionable validity because of its unverified character is disguised as reports of high testimonial trustworthiness and epistemic value with the help of a variety of language and textual resources. The results of the study enable us to argue that within the mass media communication there exists a specific discourse which is hybrid by nature and non-evidential by verification.

scholarly journals Ordinary media communication as a socio-speech sphere: The problem statement and the boundaries of manifestation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Nikolai D. Golev ◽  
◽  
Nadezhda N. Shpil’naia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Linguistic Community ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Communicative Context ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
Communicative Space

The object of consideration in the article is the communicative space of the linguistic community, which can be represented as a set of socio-speech spheres. The subject of the research of the article is the ordinary media communication as a socio-speech sphere with its inherent discursive practices and genre forms of their implementation. The article defines the boundaries of the manifestation of everyday media communication. The sphere of ordinary media communication is differentiated on the basis of two oppositions, taking into account a type of linguistic personality and a type of communicative context: a professional/nonprofessional linguistic personality, a natural/artificial communicative context. On this basis, the following manifestations of ordinary media communication are distinguished as follows: nonprofessional everyday media discourse, pseudo-media discourse, everyday professional media discourse. On the basis of the typology of speech events as narrative, declarative and representative, discursive practices are distinguished into event-ideas, referential and textual events. Narrative discursive practices actualize textual events. They recreate a textual event as a communicative event that is delayed in time. These discursive practices are implemented in the genres of everyday conversation and private history. The declarative discursive practices are related to the actualization of the referential events. This is a manifestation of the reflective activities of native speakers, the result of which is their judgments on the media activities: issues of media activity, about their work, etc. These discursive practices are implemented in the genres of media myths and superstitious media features. The representative discursive practices actualize event-ideas, presenting an interpretation of various media events. The article considers such genres of their implementation as media anecdotes, media commentary and the media “note” genre as the implementation of pseudo-media discourse.

Innovations as a Reflection of the Current Epidemic Situation in the World

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
V. E. Zamaldinov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Psychological Influence ◽  
The Common ◽  
Media Texts

The article considers word-building neologisms as a reflection of the current epidemic situation in the world. The material for the analysis was mass media texts. The sociocultural aspect of the language of the media led to the emergence of a large number of new nominations. The author makes an attempt to single out the common ways of word formation (prefixation, suffixation) and notes the expansion of affixoids. With the help of neologisms, journalists express a negative attitude towards the epidemic situation in the world, exert a psychological influence on the reader, ironically comprehend the surrounding reality, bring media communication closer to speaking, and designate high-tech phenomena. The author describes such occasional methods of word formation as contamination, tmesis, interword overlapping and substitutional derivation. The study reveals that occasional derivative means allow journalists to achieve a comic effect, attract the attention of the addressee; violating the principle of the integrity of the word, as well as to express negative expression. Structural-semantic and derivational types of analysis of innovations are carried out. It is concluded that extralinguistic factors have a great impact on the language.

scholarly journals Font and Colour Attributes as Manipulated in Mass Media Texts: Psycholinguistic Implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Larysa Makaruk
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Food Advertising ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Text String ◽  
Single Text ◽  
Text Fragment ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Extensive Body ◽  
Illustrative Material

This paper is aimed to analyse font and colour as non-verbal and paralingual components which have the capacity to influence and manipulate recipients of a message. On the basis of an extensive body of illustrative material, it has been established that by the use of colour variation, a single text fragment may be interpreted in several different ways, and may also be perceived differently by men and by women. It is demonstrated that colour and font characteristics are not exclusively graphic shells whose function is merely to record an oral statement in writing. They are semantically significant and multifunctional. It has been determined that font and colour are form-creating elements, which make possible the graphic reproduction of objects in everyday use, objects relating to reality and actuality. Variation in font and colour enable us to hypothesize that the mass media communication space is now characterized by a type of linguistic play utilizing these traits so as to render possible the projection of multiple-reading promotional texts. They also permit an economy in terms of space because of the fact that font techniques can perform formative and content functions simultaneously. Based on an experiment involving 60 participants, 30 of whom were male and 30 female, it was found that the information encoded in colour and font graphics shells is not difficult to perceive and to decipher. However, the survey found that women are more likely to perceive that information, although the difference in perception is not striking. When  asked whether a sample of illustrative material stirred an appetite by using stylized fonts consisting of foods to convey a food-related message, 74 % of men and 37% of women in both articles answered in the positive, which in our study confirms the claim that food advertising promotes appetite arousal. The study also showed that most women who read the information perceive it holistically–their attention is not attracted solely by verbal and nonverbal components. On the other hand, only half of the men surveyed saw it as a whole, and almost a third of them initially noticed the verbal components first. Most participants in the experiment claimed that it took them from 5 to 10 seconds to realize that a single message could be read in several different ways. The participants who took part confirm that a single text string can be interpreted in multiple ways due to the font and colour attributes that are utilized in forming them.

scholarly journals Metaphorical Modeling of Negotiations on ‘Jamaica Coalition’ in Mass Media of Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01038
Author(s):  
Liudmila Bykova ◽  
Aksana Tadzhibova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Different Types

The article deals with the metaphoric modeling of media discourse by the example of the negotiations on ‘Jamaica coalition’ in mass media of Germany. Such spheres-sources of metaphorical expansion as Disease, Sport, Nature and Food/Kitchen and Theatre and their activity are analysed in the article. It is shown that the metaphor helps publicists to solve any communicative tasks they need. The metaphor possesses a pragmatical function in media discourse, it can attract and provide simplicity of perception of information and, therefore, form a positive or negative attitude towards it. According to the analysis the process of coalition creation is presented by means of different types of metaphors as a set of rehearsed actions in advance, spectacular performances of various emotional character, sometimes with unpredictable, obscure results.

scholarly journals The Discursive Opposition and the “Power of Discourse” in the Ukrainian Mass Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 02007
Author(s):  
Iryna Synytsia
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject

The subject of this publication is related to such directions of modern linguistics as critical discourse analysis, media linguistics, and text semantics. The article examines the features of the media discourse of Ukraine on the example of antonymic semantic relations that are the result of modern discursive practice. The media discourse of modern Ukraine demonstrates the facts of the emergence and functioning of the pseudo-antonymic opposition. The research is based on economic topics articles published in Ukrainian online publications during 2019-2020. The texts of the publications are written in Ukrainian or Russian. All articles are devoted to the problem of “betrayal or victory”. The author of the article asserts that the active functioning of the Ukrainian lexemes “betrayal” and “victory” in the media discourse influenced not only the emergence of unusual oppositional relations between these lexemes. The active use of pseudo-antonyms in speech contributes to the destruction of traditional axiological values of Ukrainians and involves them in pseudo-discussions. Thus, first of all, the “power of discourse” is manifested. The author speaks about the formation of an independent discourse “betrayal or victory” in the Ukrainian media discourse. Pseudo-antonyms explode the pragmatic intentions of the sender of the message and are a means of manipulative influence on the linguistic consciousness of the recipient.

scholarly journals Put a Tiger in Your Text

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Leif Dahlberg
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Literature And Film

Abstract The subject of this article is the extensive use of metalepsis as an argumentative and rhetorical device in media discourse, and in particular in advertising. Metalepsis, a form of metonymy, sets up an inverted relation – causal, logical or contiguous – between terms and/or objects, either as an aesthetic effect or a means of persuasion. The first part of the article discusses the use of metalepsis in literature and film; the second part discusses the use of the figure in mass media and advertising; the third part discusses the relation between advertising, art, and popular culture. The final part of the article discusses the pervasive use metalepsis in advertising. Since metalepsis is a powerful rhetorical device, I have chosen the figure of the tiger to illustrate how it operates in advertising and media discourse.

scholarly journals Communication regimes of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia: scientific discussion

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-161
Author(s):  
V. V. Volkov ◽  
V. V. Vorotnikov ◽  
V. V. Komleva ◽  
A. D. Starikov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
National Research Institute ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
The Eu

The materials of the scientific discussion contain basic ideas, pronounced by Russian and foreign participants in the International scientific discussion on the subject of “Communication regimes in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia”. The discussion was held by the National Research Institute of Communication Development (НИИРК). The Study of communication regimes, held by НИИРК based on author’s methods revealed the following in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia: rigid regulation of all segments of communication and information content , bodies of self-government included ( having the opportunity to align contacts independently, for example, in the border areas), control over the communication participants taken at random, under the pretext of providing informational security, especially mass media and NGO; strive for the consolidation of the society on the basis of articulating of threats to the national identity and threats to ethnic national self-consciousness; dominating of the Russian threat to national security in information discourse; conscious policy of narrowing the Russian language informational, educational and socializing space; incomplete inclusion in the European information discourse and selective compliance with the principles of the EU relative to communication and information (codex of practices relative to misinformation); the beginning of the compaction of communication space by alternative actors, who appeared as a result of mistrust for the acting government and as a result of impossibility to realize their needs. In the course of the debates it was discussed: institutionalization of the countries communication regimes: role of historically shaped and contemporary practices in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia; actors models of communication regimes in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia; role of political institutes, mass media, institutes of civil society and business in shaping communication regimes; peculiarities of communication regimes relative to separately taken groups of the population, mass media, neighboring countries.

AUTISM IN THE DISCOURSE OF THE RUSSIAN MASS MEDIA: CONSTRUCTING OF THE IMAGE OF A HUMAN WITH ASD

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Saveleva Zh.V.
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Adults With Autism ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
The Media ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
The Mass Media

The prevalence of autism is growing, the problems of stigmatization and discrimination of people with autism spectrum disorders in society are exacerbating. The mass media play an important role in enlightening and reducing stigmatizing effects, in connection with which the goal was formulated to study the construction of images of a person with ASD in the mass media by the method of qualitative and discourse analysis of video clips from the federal channel. According to the results of the study, it can be argued that the range of characteristics used to describe people with autism in media discourse is diverse, but in retrospect, dominant interpretation models can be identified. At an early stage, the prevailing image of a person with ASD was deprived of the quality’s characteristic of normotypical people who do not want to leave their world. People diagnosed with autism were referred to as the intolerant category of "autistic". Since 2013, there has been a discursive turn, within which the category “autist” is replaced by tolerant speech patterns, adults with autism get into the lens of the media, the topic of uncommunicability as a property of a person with autism is replaced by the intention of the lack of opportunities to communicate, one of the reasons for which is social exclusion. In television stories of recent years, the mass media are actively constructing the image of a person with autism spectrum disorder through his inner world, through the advantages that a person with ASD can have due to his characteristics. However, it cannot be said that there has been a complete change of the image: the old cliches, as a rule, manifest themselves at a more latent level of grammatical constructions and semiotic meanings.

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