scholarly journals Discursive Practices of Constructing Narrative Credibility in an Analytical Piece (by the Example of English-Language Mass Media Discourse)

2022 ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Andreevna Nikonova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practices

scholarly journals The genitive case as a grammatical preference of modern press

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
M. A. Salkova ◽  
O. A. Machina
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Structure Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Core ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
Case Structure ◽  
Functional Capacities ◽  
Genitive Case

The article focuses on the construction N’s + N known as the genitive case structure. Analysis of the data retrieved from two English Language corpora (the BNC and COCA) has demonstrated that the N’s + N structure as a typical grammatical feature of modern mass media discourse realizes certain communicative and discursive properties that constitute the core of this mixed morphological-and-syntactic phenomenon. Thanks to its anthropocentric character, the structure also possesses some functional capacities that make a valuable and indispensable contribution to the organization of meaning in mass media texts.

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 THE SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF DERIVATIONAL DOUBLETS LIKE FRAGRANCE / FRAGRANCY (BASED ON MASS-MEDIA DISCOURSE)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizaveta A. Zdereva ◽  
◽  
Ekaterina M. Vishnevskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse

The paper covers the issues related to semantic analysis of derivational doublets in the English language within the framework of mass media discourse. This research focuses on the linguistic properties of derivational doublets with regard to different parameters (grammar, semantics, stylistic and discursive criteria).

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 Russia’s Portrayal in the Mirror of International Mass Media: The Role of Cultural Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Olga B. Maximova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
International Media ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Political Media

The analysis of cultural context in media texts can contribute to understanding how national images are constructed in the international media discourse. The image of a country is better understood by the audience of another country when it is introduced through familiar cultural concepts and well-known experiences so that specific, culture-bound elements of the other culture are brought closer to the target audience.The research provides linguo-cultural analysis of Russia’s portrayal in political media discourse in English-speaking countries drawing on the approach to political discourse as the process of production and interpretation of a text in meaningful political, social and cultural context.The study is aimed at exploring British and U.S.A. mass media to reveal typical features of the English-language political discourse concerning Russia and to find out how Russia’s image is constructed. In the course of the study we examined culture-bound lexicon in texts of various genres of political discourse in mass media focusing on Russia. Further, the use of Russian culture-bound items without translation in British and American mass media was analyzed, and such items were classified into categories according to their contextual functions.The results indicate that Russia is deeply integrated into the cultural context of the English-speaking audience; it can be said that Russia’s image in the Anglophone political media discourse is outlined with the aid of various cultural-bound associative, connotative and metaphorical links which are familiar for native readers and serve them as a bridge facilitating their understanding and interpretation of Russian culture. 

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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