The paper focuses on diachronic framing analysis of Russias images in British media discourse. The importance of the research is determined by a need to work out adequate linguistic foundations to counteract information war, generated by some foreign media and aimed at distorting Russias history and eroding its spiritual values. Few scholars have drawn on any systematic research into analysis of Russias images in foreign media discourses of different historical spans. The major objective is to compare Russias images and their emotional charge in the British media in chronologically divided periods of war and peace under the influence of changing historical and ideological factors. The authors account for the mechanisms by which Russias images are framed and transformed in the contexts of the largest war of the XX century and the information war of the XXI century. The material comprises 500 samples per period. The data covering two historical spans are investigated through a framing approach. The criteria for diachronic analysis are dominant diagnostic and prognostic frames, constituting the macroframe WAR. The significant difference in Russias images in war- and peacetime consists in their emotive load: Russias contemporary negative images are contrasted to positive images activated in the retrospective period. The findings support the idea that British media discourse focusing on Russia is subject-centered: Russias image is determined by the geopolitical situation, Great Britains political priorities and objectives, and the bilateral relationship between the countries. The results can be used to further develop the linguistic basics of war theory.

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Urban identity is a complex phenomenon encompassing a wide range of city life aspects, which vary across cultures. In the media discourse, the urban issues are made prominent due to framing. The goal of the authors is to identify and systematize frames that generate meanings about the urban life, and explain them from the point of view of the journalistic strategies. The author focuses on exploring how topical urban issues are framed and presented to the reading audience. To gain a deeper understanding of the communicative schemata that determine interpretations of the city issues, a cognitive-discursive perspective is claimed central to the research. It proves adequate in demonstrating the synergies of two employed methods: discourse analysis and frame analysis. Applying a case-study approach, a sample of 658 texts is analyzed. 2577 contexts have been retrieved from The Nottingham Post between 2014 and 2017. The results show that the urban life representations rest on frame structures of different conceptual complexity. Urban identity is a rich conceptual structure (a macroframe), constituted by four frames, observable in the discourse-world of the city. Each of them has foci, which draw public attention to the social aspects of the urban living. Positive presentation of the authorities has been revealed as the leading macrostrategy aimed at supporting and approving of the initiatives taken by the local administration, which is realized through the strategies of reference, predication, and argumentation. The findings add to the framing analysis and could be beneficial for the development of urban policies.

The paper focuses on theoretical and methodological aspects of the development of one of the latest trends in Russian discourse studies – linguistics of information-psychological war. The analysis involves publications, retrieved from Russian electronic library (“Elibrary”) under a thematic subject heading "Linguistics" and "Mass communication", all of which being dedicated to the problems of information confrontation. The main objective is to specify how linguistics of information-psychological war has been developing since 2017, when the research trend was initially proposed by a group of Siberian scholars. Minor task is to determine, what ideas constitute a common around for Russian scholars, that try to unravel the linguistic mechanisms, underlying the complex phenomenon of information-psychological war. Analytical-descriptive approach, including methods of observation, generalization, and interpretation, is employed. It is argued that linguistics of information-psychological war has acquired discursive dimension. It features methodological heterogeneity, recurrence of themes, terminological variability, use of related concepts. It is proved that information-psychological war is treated as a construct, textualized in media discourse. The major theoretical and methodological problem is outlined, which relates to the absence of relevant criteria that could be adequate to identify texts as means of information-psychological war. The results can be used to extend the scope of linguistics of information-psychological war and to increase its capacity for working out the linguistic bases of counteraction to threats in media sphere.

The article focuses on framing law and order as an urban problem. The research investigates the mechanisms of discourse representation of the social ill-being in the local media. Meaning construction is studied in the aspect of frame structures of varying conceptual complexity. Contextual, cognitive-discursive and frame analyses are employed to identify how a problem is diagnosed, which social actor is assigned responsibility, and how it is evaluated in the British media The Nottingham Post. The notion of LAW and ORDER macroframe is introduced to denote a complex cognitive construct that directs readers' attention to the theme within which the life of the city is discussed. It is argued that LAW and ORDER macroframe consists of frames and slots that focus on different offences. Those include knife crimes, sexual offences, drug offences, hate crime, drink driving, illegal activity, anti-social behaviour. The results of the research might present interest for urban studies, media linguistics, and discourse studies.