scholarly journals Linguistic image of an opposition journalist in the pragmatic perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Żanna Sładkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Political Reality ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Temporal Aspect ◽  
Truth Teller ◽  
Textual Content

The paper presents the linguistic image of an opposition journalist in the pragmatic perspective, i.e. taking into account the dominant image-making communicative strategies. The author defines the concept of a personal image and presents a model for describing a linguistic image. The strategic and tactical organization of the linguistic image of an opposition journalist is analyzed on two levels: communicative and textual (content). The communicative component is realized through a wide range of self-representative, phatic and fasciation strategies aimed at attracting the target recipient and involving him emotionally in the implementation of the discursive principle of dialogism. The content component is implemented through the strategy of discrediting and tactics of nomination, intensification, reductionism, fragmentation, as well as modeling the socio-political reality in the temporal aspect. As a result, the image of a categorical critic, an expert, an intellectual and truth-teller is created.

Self-Labeled and Visible Identities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Penney
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The People ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Influence Perceptions ◽  
Profile Pictures

This chapter focuses on the identity politics of social movements and uses the case study of gay and lesbian activism to examine how citizen media participation is mobilized in strategic projects of public visibility. It charts how citizens use mediated acts of self-labeling, such as changing profile pictures on social media, to announce the presence of their identities and attempt to influence perceptions of social and political reality. This model of “coming out” may have particular resonance for the LGBT community that has long sought to end its historical invisibility, yet it has also been adopted by a wide range of constituencies who seek to challenge notions of who “the people” truly are. Public visibility campaigns may also contribute to a flattening of differences as social identities become branded with a homogenized set of symbolic artifacts, suggesting the potential limits of visibility as a strategy for inducing social and political change.

‘I wouldn’t think you might agree’

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-47
Author(s):  
Marta Degani ◽  
Anna Belladelli
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Modal Verbs ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Syntactic Pattern ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Modal Verb ◽  
Communicative Context

This study concerns objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity in relation to the English central modal verbs. In order to refine the (inter)subjective status of modals from a synchronic perspective, it focuses on their possible uses within a specific communicative context where the SP/W needs to ‘modulate’ his/her own and/or other people’s point of view. A qualitative and quantitative corpus-based analysis has been carried out on the syntactic pattern Subject + Modal Verb + Mental Verb, to check whether and to what extent (inter)subjectivity occurs in the written medium. By means of a semantic-pragmatic analysis of the central modals within the selected pattern, a wide range of communicative strategies has been observed. Four main aims have been identified that the SP/W may have in mind when choosing to resort to (inter)subjectivity: namely, the expression of the SP/W’s point of view (EPV), the shaping of the AD/R’s line of reasoning (SLR), the imposition of the SP/W’s power on the AD/R (IP), and the communication of information (CI).

scholarly journals Communicative Strategies of an Interviewer Yury Dud: A Linguist’s View of the Media Phenomenon in Mass Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 263-277
Author(s):  
O. S. Issers
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
Social Communications ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Show Business ◽  
The Media ◽  
Modern Mass

Purpose. The article examines the methods of building dialogue in interviews conducted by the popular video blogger and journalist Yury Dud, who is named the main hero of Russian cultural life in 2020 by Forbes Life. To determine his individual style, the author analyzes strategies of communicative behavior. The following parameters are the most significant for the description of interviewing strategies: thematic repertoire and thematic dominants of the conversation; methods of requesting/extracting information; methods of interpreting and evaluating what the interlocutor said; the choice of language code. The empirical basis of the study contains interviews by Yu. Dud with various interlocutors – journalists, TV presenters, cultural and show business figures, politicians, and other public figures, uploaded on the YouTube video hosting service in the period of 2017–2020. The analysis of more than 40 programs allows observing a wide range of techniques of a journalist, depending on the “addressee factor”.Results. The key topics that are regularly discussed in interviews are identified, including those that violate ethical taboos (about sex, bad behavior, and bad habits, judgments and hot takes on colleagues and senior officials, etc.). The thematic repertoire is considered as a deliberate communicative choice of a journalist, conditioned by the dramaturgy of public dialogue addressed to a mass audience and the tasks of portrayal.The author reveals the distinctive methods of requesting information and eliciting facts, which is inherent to the journalistic style of Yu. Dud: illocutionary forcing reasoning (“why-questions”), clarifying questions, reformulating, role modeling of relations with a guest, where the journalist often pretends being dilettante. Interpretation and evaluation of the interlocutor's statements are based on the clearest identification of their position for the mass addressee by an explication of ideas expressed by the guest implicitly, “delegation of opinion”, and the effects of “insight”.The choice of the language code indicates the “discursive adaptation” of the journalist to his interlocutor and allows the journalist to reveal to the mass audience their personality, including their speech characteristics. The dynamism of the dialogue is due to the setting to dramatize the conversation scenario: this is manifested not only in the choice of somewhat unexpected topics of conversation, but also in the expression of one's attitude to the statements of the interlocutor, explicit/implicit assessments, and the choice of the speech code.Conclusion. It is concluded that Dud’s interviews are a vivid example of the trends of modern Internet journalism, and the communicative strategies he implements allow us to see the prospects for the development of the genre. Given the popularity of the genre in traditional and new media, the author notices that the interview not only reflects the features of social communications of the 21st century but is also a powerful factor of shaping modern mass culture.

scholarly journals ‘And we are Stuck in One Place, Minister.’ A Study of Evasiveness in Replies to Face-Threatening Questions in Slovak Political Interviews on Scandals (A Combined Approach)

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 690-704
Author(s):  
Jana Lokajová
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Frames ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Conceptual Background ◽  
Political Argumentation ◽  
Discourse Studies

Abstract The phenomenon of political evasiveness in the genre of a political interview has been the focus of several discourse studies employing conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis and the social psychology approach. Most of the above-mentioned studies focus on a detailed qualitative analysis of political discourse identifying a wide range of communication strategies that permit politicians to ambiguate their agency and at the same time boost their positive face. Since these strategies may change over time and also be subject to a culture specific environment, the aim of this paper is to discover a) which evasive communicative strategies were employed by Slovak politicians in 2012–2016, b) which lexical substitutions were most frequently used by them to avoid negative connotations of face-threatening questions, and finally, c) which cognitive frames formed a frequent conceptual background of their evasive political argumentation. The paper will draw on a combination of quantitative and qualitative approach to the analysis of non-replies devised by Bull and Mayer (1993) and critical discourse analysis in the sample of five Slovak radio interviews aired on the Rádio Express. The selection of interviews was not random- in each interview the politician was asked highly conflictual questions about bribery, embezzlement or disputes in the coalition. Based on qualitative research of Russian-Slovak political discourse (2009) by Dulebová it is hypothesized that a) the evasive strategy of ‘attack’ on the opposition and ‘attack on the interviewer’ would occur in our sample with the highest prominence in the speech of the former Prime Minister Fico, and b) the politicians accused of direct involvement in scandals would be the most evasive ones.

scholarly journals Corpus Routes and Experiments in Language Teaching

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
O. G. Gorina ◽  
N. S. Tsarakova
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Quantitative Aspect ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Awareness Tool ◽  
Subjective Phenomenon

Corpus quantitative approach in teaching, which is of growing interest, entails some revision of the L2 vocabulary selection procedures and provides solutions for a wide range of practical problems. The focus throughout is on the discussion of research on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of language which both teaching content and language acquisition practice could draw on. This research regards human language as a rank distribution, which has serious implications on quantitative aspect of learner’s vocabulary. We also looked into the ways to factor in the data from a small professional discourse corpus in order to target the units that have the greatest statistical prominence. Both BNC and our own collection of texts are explored. The study also elaborates on academic writing cohesive devices and grammar patterns introduction, which is approached through concordancing corpus strings to (i) provide frequency evidence and (ii) introduce a contrast in usage in various corpus genres. Striking differences that are evidenced by the frequency lists could be related not only to register, but also to the choice and instances of academic cohesive clusters which are favoured by the apprentice writers and the expert writers. With the aim of capitalizing on corpus approach a number of small-scale corpus research tasks were developed. This study also uses corpus tools and data to give a seemingly subjective phenomenon of hedging some quantitative measurement. While experimenting on corpus in the classroom, the attention of learners was drawn to various means of hedging, such as lexical bundles or down-toners that manifest themselves as important communicative strategies. Thus, corpus was used to inform both the language instructor and the student in the classroom to look in detail at differences in the use of lexical and grammatical units in different varieties of language, address contrasting register variations, and readily provide contemporary professionally relevant examples of actual language usage. It has to be noted that university students have a tendency not to perceive register violations as language errors on a par with those of grammar, lexis or punctuation. Hence, corpus investigation as raising awareness tool also proved to be an effective teaching material generator. Nowadays syllabi have the opportunity to be rather sensitive to the quantitative evidence that corpora offer us; what is more, as a result of this study, we would conclude that university students are responsive to the small-scale investigation of register differences, lexico-grammatical frequency and patterning, which have been brought directly into the L2 classroom.

A UNIFIED THEORY OF TRUTH AND PARADOX

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-254
Author(s):  
LORENZO ROSSI
Keyword(s):  
Unified Theory ◽  
Single Model ◽  
Semantic Paradox ◽  
Semantic Paradoxes ◽  
Theories Of Truth ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Truth Teller

AbstractThe sentences employed in semantic paradoxes display a wide range of semantic behaviours. However, the main theories of truth currently available either fail to provide a theory of paradox altogether, or can only account for some paradoxical phenomena by resorting to multiple interpretations of the language, as in (Kripke, 1975). In this article, I explore the wide range of semantic behaviours displayed by paradoxical sentences, and I develop a unified theory oftruth and paradox, that is a theory of truth that also provides a unified account of paradoxical sentences. The theory I propose here yields a threefold classification of paradoxical sentences—liar-like sentences, truth-teller–like sentences, and revenge sentences. Unlike existing treatments of semantic paradox, the theory put forward in this article yields a way of interpreting all three kinds of paradoxical sentences, as well as unparadoxical sentences, within a single model.

scholarly journals The Madness of Imagining New Worlds

2007 ◽  
Vol I (2) ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
Mercedes Ariza ◽  
Maria Giovanna Biscu ◽  
María Isabel Fernándes García
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Intercultural Encounters

This paper presents some reflections that emerged from a research project developed in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Translation, Languages and Cultures (SITLeC) of the University of Bologna. This three-stage project was based on language mediator training and the teaching/acquisition of intercultural communicative competence through theatre. During an eight-month workshop, a group of Italian students – beginners in Spanish – engaged in a series of extracurricular activities, resulting in the public performance of a play written in verse by Lope de Vega. Under the researchers’ supervision, students analysed the play from a linguistic and (inter)cultural perspective, giving special emphasis to the discovery of the other, the encounter of the Old and the New World and the miscommunication caused by lack of understanding in intercultural situations. All these aspects helped students to explore a wide range of verbal and nonverbal communicative strategies, as well as to increase their foreign language proficiency and develop empathy. The in-depth analysis of the play and of the emblematic character of Columbus, whose imagination is capable of inventing new worlds even before discovering them, showed students that the real shipwreck in intercultural encounters is incommunicability itself and that, in order to communicate, one needs to be an ‘apostate translator’. This paper presents some reflections that emerged from a research project developed in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Translation, Languages and Cultures (SITLeC) of the University of Bologna. This three-stage project was based on language mediator training and the teaching/acquisition of intercultural communicative competence through theatre. During an eight-month workshop, a group of Italian students – beginners in Spanish – engaged in a series of extracurricular activities, resulting in the public performance of a play written in verse by Lope de Vega. Under the researchers’ supervision, students analysed the play from a linguistic and (inter)cultural perspective, giving special emphasis to the discovery of the other, the encounter of the Old and the New World and the miscommunication caused by lack of understanding in intercultural situations. All these aspects helped students to explore a wide range of verbal and nonverbal communicative strategies, as well as to increase their foreign language proficiency and develop empathy. The in-depth analysis of the play and of the emblematic character of Columbus, whose imagination is capable of inventing new worlds even before discovering them, showed students that the real shipwreck in intercultural encounters is incommunicability itself and that, in order to communicate, one needs to be an ‘apostate translator’.

scholarly journals INDIGENOUS MINORITIES IN THE CONTEMPORARY ETHNOPOLITICAL SPACE OF THE ALTAI REPUBLIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Irina V. Oktyabrskaya ◽  
◽  
Ekaterina V. Samushkina ◽  
Vasily V. Nikolaev ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Activity ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Altai Republic ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Status ◽  
Regional Community ◽  
Indigenous Minorities ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
High Level

The article is devoted to the analysis of contemporary ethnopolitical processes in the Altai Republic. It is based on a polyparadigm approach and a wide range of sources. In the 1980–1990s, a number of organizations emerged in the Altai Republic; they represented the interests of the region’s minorities: the Kumandins, Chelkans, Tubalars, Teleuts. These groups, which were assessed as subethnoses in the academic and social-journalistic discourse, had crisis parameters in the preservation of languages and cultures, but demonstrated a high level of political activity. In the 2000s, the Kumandins, Chelkans, Tubalars, and Teleuts’ political choice was made in favor of the status of indigenous small peoples, which did not prevent them from considering themselves as a part of the Altai community as a whole. The authors’ study showed that the priorities of ethnic structuring of the Altai’s ethnopolitical space in the 2000s combined with integration trends. The realization of the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Altai Republic formed a new socio-cultural and ethno-political reality. The characteristic features of this reality are: activation of the national and ecological-cultural movement of indigenous small peoples and mobilization of ethnicity, cultural and linguistic identity; multi-level nature of identity. By analyzing the socio-cultural and ethno-political practices of the indigenous small peoples of the Altai Republic, the article demonstrates that despite all the difficulties associated with preserving the unity of the republican community, the movement of the region’s indigenous minorities has built a system of effective dialogue with the state and the regional community, taking into account Russian and international political and legal support.

scholarly journals ANIMATED MOVIES IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (193) ◽  
pp. 432-439
Author(s):  
Oksana Samusenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Auditory Information ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Local Map

This paper deals with the methodology of teaching foreign languages, in particular Russian as a foreign one. The article presents an analysis of animated movies as one of the ways to motivate students to increase their speech activity and to form their communicative competence. The author learns an animation as an educational material in foreign languages teaching practice. As well the paper focuses on a linguo-methodological potential of animation and on variants of motivational exercises based on the animated movies material. The animated movies value in foreign languages teaching practice lies in the fact that the material is authentic and not made for educational goals initially; combines visual and auditory information; is a source for familiarity with culturally specific vocabulary; provides a wide range of opportunities for mastering grammatical constructions, different intentions and communicative strategies; develops listening and speaking, as well as reading and writing skills through the use of motivational exercises. Effectiveness of using such animated materials in teaching foreign languages and achievement of learning results, first of all, depends on coherent compliance of the principles selection. The main requirements are conformity of the proposed material to the level of language proficiency, a possibility to develop communicative skills, socio-cultural context. Precedence, ethical value and humorous component of a text are important as well. Based on the material of animations the author suggests such motivational tasks: predicting from a name or a picture, animated movie dubbing, staging of separate episodes, imagining life of characters, interviewing characters, retelling on behalf of each character, story-telling based on the pictures or screenshots of the animated movies, creating memes, blogging on behalf of a character, making a local map and giving a tour, making a quote book, quest based on an animated movie, various discussions and other role plays.

scholarly journals Multimodal Conflict Management in English Fictional Discourse

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iryna Sieriakova ◽  
Olha Chernenko ◽  
Oleksandr Muntian
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Structural Organization ◽  
Management Mode ◽  
Conflict Studies ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Semiotic Resources ◽  
Conflict Interaction

Modern linguistic studies encompass a wide range of approaches for explaining language in use through the set of different semiotic resources. This paper discusses the use and informative significance of such funds in the framework of conflict studies in English fictional discourse. The phenomenon of conflict discourse multimodality, which combines several semiotic systems as particular modes of communication, helps to reveal the communicative and pragmatic value of verbal and nonverbal means of conflict settlement and resolution. The paper aims to determine how the nonverbal means of communication in conflict discourse influence the process of conflict interaction and what implications its interpretation has on conflict development and resolution. To achieve this, the study relies upon the analysis of semantic, formal, and functional peculiarities of nonverbal conflict-management mode in the structural organization of conflict fictional discourse. The analysis of nonverbal mode as a combination of different semiotic resources reveals that nonverbal conflict-management mode is represented by a specific set of patterns in English fictional discourse. Moreover, the process of conflict communication may be regulated nonverbally, governing, completing, strengthening, or resolving the conflict. The obtained results indicate that analysis of the nonverbal means in conflict fiction discourse with a focus on multimodal studies enables to get a true picture of the role of nonverbal conflict-management mode in the actual and potential realization of communicative strategies which in correlation with its pragmatic impact and some sociolinguistic features contribute to the influence on the process of conflict resolution and management.

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