The Media Image of Language in the Modern Russian Newspaper (on the Material of the City Newspaper “Kuznetskiy Rabochiy”)

Irina Pushkareva

doi:10.31648/pw.5484

The Media Image of Language in the Modern Russian Newspaper (on the Material of the City Newspaper “Kuznetskiy Rabochiy”)

Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski ◽

10.31648/pw.5484 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 325-335

Author(s):

Irina Pushkareva

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Language Game ◽

Verbal Aggressiveness ◽

Media Image ◽

The Media ◽

City Newspaper ◽

Language And Education ◽

The City ◽

Semantic Aspect

The article represents features of the media image of language in the city newspaper. Semantic and stylistic characterization of the use of the lexeme ‘language’ in the newspaper text reveals the specificity of the media image. The material for the semantic and stylistic analysis of the interpretative field of the concept ‘language’ is the Russian mass city newspaper “Kuznetskiy rabochiy” (Novokuznetsk). Content analysis of the newspaper texts of 2002–2018 revealed regularities of the actualization of the semantics of the lexeme ‘language’ in the contexts. In the newspaper texts, the language is realized, primarily, as a system of the verbal means used to express the national identity, to increase the level of education and spiritual culture, and to improve the mutual understanding. In some degree, the language policy controls and corrects the state of this system. The newspaper texts demonstrate that the speech behavior of a modern person realizes not only the harmonious (the topic of creativity) but also the incorrect use of the language system (lie, verbal aggressiveness, errors, lack of the language taste). The estimation is explicated through the language game, the use of phraseological units, epithets, iterations, and antitheses. These devices create the meliorative contexts as well as the pejorative ones. The most emphasized semantic aspect “Language and national identity” is formed in the newspaper texts, primarily, due to the discourse specificity of the regional edition. One of the local historical dominants of the regional edition is tied to the topic of the destiny of the small nation. Apart from the materials about the Shor language, the main semantic aspect of the media image of language in the examined newspaper texts of the 21st century is the aspect “language and education”.

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Identidades relacionadas ao espaço geográfico: a nação brasileira e a cidade de Novo Hamburgo/RS (1927-1945)

Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais ◽

10.22296/2317-1529.2009v11n2p119 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 119

Author(s):

Alessander Kerber ◽

Cleber Cristiano Prodanov

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

De Novo ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

The Press ◽

The Media ◽

The City ◽

Geographical Space ◽

Second World

O texto analisa as lutas de representações em torno da construção de identidades ligadas ao espaço geográfico da nação brasileira e da cidade de Novo Hamburgo (RS) através do seu principal jornal, O 5 de Abril, no período de 1927, momento de sua emancipação, até 1945, final da Segunda Guerra Mundial e da ditadura do Estado Novo. Este período foi marcado pela construção de versões acerca destas duas identidades e de sua disseminação através da imprensa. As duas versões apresentavam conflitos especialmente focados no fato de a cidade ser representada por signos que remetiam ao processo de imigração alemã, e à nação, por signos que remetiam à mestiçagem. Tais conflitos acirraram-se no momento em que o Brasil entrou na Segunda Guerra Mundial contra a Alemanha. Palavras-chave: cidade; identidade nacional; imprensa. Abstract: This is an analysis of the struggle over representations involving the construction of identities rooted in the geographical space of the nation of Brazil and the city of Novo Hamburgo using the city’s main newspaper, “O 5 de Abril”, which was published from 1927, when the city was officially recognized, until 1945, which marked the end of the Second World War and of the Estado Novo dictatorship in Brazil. This period was marked by the construction of different versions of these two identities and their massification by the media. These versions were in conflict, specifically focused on the fact that the city was represented through signs that refer to the process of German immigration, while there presentation of the nation was through signs referring the intermixing of races. These conflicts intensified when Brazil entered the Second World War against Germany. Keywords: city, national identity, the press.

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The Media Image of the North Caucasus in the Chechen Republic Mass Media as an Instrument of National Identification

Humanitarian Vector ◽

10.21209/1996-7853-2020-15-5-116-125 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (5) ◽

pp. 116-125

Author(s):

Evseev Alexander Y. ◽

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Erofeeva Irina V. ◽

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Mass Media ◽

Northern Caucasus ◽

Media Influence ◽

North Caucasus ◽

Negative Stereotypes ◽

Media Image ◽

The North ◽

National Identification ◽

The Media

The topicality of the research is caused by the totality of the modern media influence on an image of a particular territory in mass conscience. The article characterizes the system of the Chechen media as an information platform for promoting the image of the North Caucasus, and offers its image projection in the media of the Republic, taking into account the mental characteristics of the inhabitants of the region. The article aims at revealing communicative possibilities for modeling the Northern Caucasus image by the media resources of the Chechen Republic in the system of successful territorial branding, and presenting the media image role in forming national identity. Axiology of the media image is presented through linguistic and cultural analysis based on the inseparable unity of the language and culture of the society. Our interdisciplinary research was conducted using a structural-functional approach and discourse-analysis, which allowed us to reveal format and content features of constructing and advancing the media image. Basic media image features are intended to awake a man’s cultural memory and his national identity ‒ a feeling of belonging to a socio-code meaningful for a particular territory. The conclusion can be drawn that it is necessary to fundamentally readjust the media image taking into account the characteristics of perception and expectations of the audience. We stress the importance of changes in the presentation of information materials about the region. There is a need for regular and systematic work on neutralizing the negative stereotypes and constructing the effective media image of the Northern Caucasus as an instrument for the consolidation of the population and person’s cultural identification. The dominating idea for the strategy of advancing the media image of a multiethnic region should be the real integration of territorial, ethnopolitical, economic, and sociocultural interests of the population of this mountainous region. The article materials can be important as part of basic research dealing with the main features of representation of the territorial image with different characteristics in the mass media. Keywords: media image, Northern Caucasus, Chechen Republic, national identification, public opinion, image, media influence

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The Role of The Students Association in The Promotion of Students' Speech Skills at The Khalid Bin Al Walid Institute at University of Muhammadiyah Mataram (ar)

Al-Ta'rib : Jurnal Ilmiah Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Arab IAIN Palangka Raya ◽

10.23971/altarib.v7i2.1510 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 59-72

Author(s):

Erwin Erwin ◽

Nasarudin Nasarudin ◽

Husnan Husnan

Keyword(s):

Student Organizations ◽

Language Game ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

The Media ◽

Role Based ◽

The University ◽

Good Deeds ◽

Speaking Skills

The purpose of this research is to explain the importance of the student organizations and describe their efforts to improve the speaking skills of students at the Mahad Khalid Bin Al Waleed at the University of Muhammadiyah Mataram. This research uses the qualitative approach with the descriptive type. The result shows the student organizations play an important role based on their objectives and functions. The objectives are to help the foundation and all parties in the Ma'had develop the students’ potential and qualification, and to be the place for the students to share their problems and complaints, while the functions are as one of the media to develop students’ quality, both the members of the non-member, and as the good examples and pioneers of any good deeds. The efforts done by student organizations in improving speaking skills are such as by making activities that lead to improving students' speaking skills like sticking vocabularies in each class and Friday activities such as language game, Arabic debate and short lecture.

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MURAL, KEKUATAN MODAL, DAN MASYARAKAT

DeKaVe ◽

10.24821/dkv.v1i1.144 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Akbar Annasher

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Communication Media ◽

Mural Painting ◽

The People ◽

The Media ◽

Mural Art ◽

The City ◽

The Voice ◽

Special Region

Broadly speaking, this paper discusses the phenomenon of murals that are now spread in Yogyakarta Special Region, especially the city of Yogyakarta. Mural painting is an art with a media wall that has the elements of communication, so the mural is also referred to as the art of visual communication. Media is a media wall closest to the community, because the distance between the media with the audience is not limited by anything, direct and open, so the mural is often used as media to convey ideas, the idea of ??community, also called the media the voice of the people. Location of mural art in situations of public spatial proved inviting the owners of capital to use such means, in this case is the mural. Manufacturers of various products began racing the race to put on this wall media, as time goes by without realizing the essence of the actual mural art was forced to turn to the commercial essence, the only benefit some parties only, the power of public spaces gradually occupied by the owners of capital, they hopes that the community can view the contents of messages and can obtain information for the products offered. it brings motivation and cognitive and affective simultaneously in the community.Keywords: Mural, Public Space, and Society.

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Conclusion

10.1093/oso/9780199392469.003.0016 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Samuel Llano

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Public Space ◽

Social Conflict ◽

Musical Performance ◽

The Public ◽

Political Interests ◽

Musical Practices ◽

The Media ◽

The City

As is described in this conclusion, more than the media and culture, Madrid’s public space constituted the primary arena where reactions and attitudes toward social conflict and inequalities were negotiated. Social conflict in the public space found expression through musical performance, as well as through the rise of noise that came with the expansion and modernization of the city. Through their impact on public health and morality, noise and unwelcomed musical practices contributed to the refinement of Madrid’s city code and the modernization of society. The interference of vested political interests, however, made the refining of legislation in these areas particularly difficult. Analysis of three musical practices, namely, flamenco, organilleros, and workhouse bands, has shown how difficult it was to adopt consistent policies and approaches to tackling the forms of social conflict that were associated with musical performance.

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Palestinian Refugees between the City and the Camp

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743820000768 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 52 (4) ◽

pp. 607-621

Author(s):

Faedah M. Totah

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Daily Life ◽

National Belonging ◽

Palestinian Refugees ◽

Social Distinction ◽

Urban Refugees ◽

Old City ◽

Refugee Experience ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

AbstractThe camp and the city are both important for understanding the relationship between space and identity in the refugee experience of exile. In the Palestinian example, the camp has emerged as a potent symbol in the narrative of exile although only a third of refugees registered with UNRWA live in camps. Moreover, the city and urban refugees remain missing in most of the scholarship on the Palestinian experience with space, exile, and identity. Furthermore, there is little attention to how refugees understand the concept of the city and camp in their daily life. This article examines how Palestinian urban refugees in the Old City of Damascus conceptualized the relationship between the camp and the city. It illustrates how the concept of the camp remained necessary for the construction of their collective national identity while in Syria. However, the city was essential in the articulation of individual desires and establishing social distinction from other refugees. Thus, during a protracted exile it is in the interstice between the city and the camp, where most urban refugees in the Old City situated themselves, that informed their national belonging and personal aspirations.

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A Tower of Tangled Histories: The Upper Silesia Tower in Poznań and the Making of an Unromantic Poland, 1911–1955

Slavic Review ◽

10.1017/slr.2020.158 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 79 (3) ◽

pp. 566-590

Author(s):

Patryk Babiracki

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

National Identity ◽

Cold War ◽

World War I ◽

Material Structure ◽

World War ◽

Upper Silesia ◽

The Cold War ◽

The City ◽

Over Time

Engaging with regional, international, and spatial histories, this article proposes a new reading of the twentieth-century Polish past by exploring the vicissitudes of a building known as the Upper Silesia Tower. Renowned German architect Hans Poelzig designed the Tower for the 1911 Ostdeutsche Ausstellung in Posen, an ethnically Polish city under Prussian rule. After Poland regained its independence following World War I, the pavilion, standing centrally on the grounds of Poznań’s International Trade Fair, became the fair's symbol, and over time, also evolved into visual shorthand for the city itself. I argue that the Tower's significance extends beyond Posen/Poznań, however. As an embodiment of the conflicts and contradictions of Polish-German historical entanglements, the building, in its changing forms, also concretized various efforts to redefine the dominant Polish national identity away from Romantic ideals toward values such as order, industriousness, and hard work. I also suggest that eventually, as a material structure harnessed into the service of socialism, the Tower, with its complicated past, also brings into relief questions about the regional dimensions of the clashes over the meaning of modernity during the Cold War.

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The media image of Chinese older people: From stigmatic stereotype to diverse self-representation

Global Media and China ◽

10.1177/20594364211012513 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 205943642110125

Author(s):

Kun Li

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Older People ◽

Old Age ◽

Media Studies ◽

Positive Attitude ◽

Media Image ◽

Past Life ◽

The Media ◽

Leisure And Recreation ◽

Chinese Older People

From the perspective of communication and media studies, this article explores a comparison between the image of older adults presented on media and online self-representation facilitated by the use of smartphones. The qualitative textual analysis was conducted with a sample (228 posts, from 1 January to 31 December,2019) selected from a representative WeChat Public Account targeting at older adults in China. The results demonstrate that leisure and recreation is the most frequently mentioned topic (58%) with memories of past life receiving the least references (3%). The striking features of popular posts among older people include a highly emotional tone, bright colours and multimedia. Sentiment analyses shows 68.42%, 13.16% and 18.42% of positive, neutral and negative emotions, respectively. A generally positive attitude of self-representation is in a sharp contrast with the stigmatic media image of older adults. The article concludes that the visibility of Chinese older people may help to reduce the stigma surrounding old age in China.

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Genomic investigation of a dengue virus outbreak in Thiès, Senegal, in 2018

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-89070-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Amy Gaye ◽

Tolla Ndiaye ◽

Mouhamad Sy ◽

Awa B. Deme ◽

Alphonse B. Thiaw ◽

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Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

Dengue Virus ◽

Clinical Signs ◽

Health Concern ◽

Public Health Concern ◽

Local Circulation ◽

Viral Genomes ◽

Genomic Characterization ◽

The City

AbstractDengue virus is a major and rapidly growing public health concern in tropic and subtropic regions across the globe. In late 2018, Senegal experienced its largest dengue virus outbreak to date, covering several regions. However, little is known about the genetic diversity of dengue virus (DENV) in Senegal. Here we report complete viral genomes from 17 previously undetected DENV cases from the city of Thiès. In total we identified 19 cases of DENV in a cohort of 198 individuals with fever collected in October and November 2018. We detected 3 co-circulating serotypes; DENV 3 was the most frequent accounting for 11/17 sequences (65%), 4 (23%) were DENV2 and 2 (12%) were DENV1. Sequences were most similar to recent sequences from West Africa, suggesting ongoing local circulation of viral populations; however, detailed inference is limited by the scarcity of available genomic data. We did not find clear associations with reported clinical signs or symptoms, highlighting the importance of testing for diagnosing febrile diseases. Overall, these findings expand the known range of DENV in Senegal, and underscore the need for better genomic characterization of DENV in West Africa.

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