The Development of Cognitive-Discourse World-Modelling Theory in European and Russian Linguistics

Kushneruk, Svetlana L.; Humanitarian, South Ural State

doi:10.20916/1812-3228-2018-4-115-125

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“…The idea of intentional selection and representation has proved relevant in contemporary research. Journalists can select some features by means of the choice of words, set phrases, repetitions, visuals, culturally marked symbols, thus, shaping the issue in a particular manner and influencing public opinion (De Vreese 2005, Godefroidt et al 2016, Kushneruk 2018, 2019, Kushneruk & Kurochkina 2020, Larina et al 2020, Ozyumenko 2017.…”

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War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

Solopova

Александровна²,

Kushneruk

et al. 2021

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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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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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

Solopova

Александровна²,

Kushneruk

et al. 2021

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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“…Настоящее исследование развивает теорию когнитивно-дискурсивного миромоделирования [4]. Это автономное направление лингвистической дискурсологии, которое объединяет под теоретикометодологическим «зонтиком» достижения зарубежной и отечественной лингвистики для изучения ментально-языковых феноменов в дискурсе и их роли в моделировании социального взаимодействия.…”

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Ideological World Modelling in American Media Discourse

Kushneruk¹

2020

Tomsk State University Journal of Philology

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“…It is an autonomous branch of Russian discourse studies that takes into account cognitive, communicative and social factors. It integrates ideas of European and Russian cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis, to explain the characteristics of mental and linguistic representations of reality in discourse for the purposes of communication (Kushneruk, 2017(Kushneruk, , 2018a(Kushneruk, and 2018b. The named theory mainly derives from Text World Theory, Discourse Representation Theory, Sociocognitive Theory of Discourse, outlined by Van Dijk, and approaches which highlight ideological influence of discourse in terms of mental representations (Chilton, 2004;Van Dijk, 2006;World Interpretation in Language, 2017).…”

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World-modelling in advertising discourse: pragmatic aspects

Kushneruk

2019

Calidoscópio

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The article is dedicated to world-modelling in commercial advertising. The author draws on European and Russian cognitive-discursive theories, which emphasize the importance of studying discourse in terms of mental representations and sets out the basics of World Modelling Theory. The named theory is used in the paper as a framework for understanding linguistic mechanisms of structuring information about the world by 'the powerful' agent of advertising discourse and its representation in slogans for the main objectives of communication. The argument is that text-worlds, generated by slogans, are cognitive-pragmatic representational structures of discourse, mediating the interaction of agent, client, and product, that depend on a wide range of contextual factors, having marketing character. The paper considers linguistic mechanisms of activating representational structures in correlation with pragmatic aspects of advertising communication, which lead to profiling three entities in the text-worlds-ADDRESSER, ADDRESSEE, PRODUCT. Typical world-modelling patterns are analyzed in the perspective REALITY-POTENTIALITY. It is shown that agent of discourse governs the perception of state of affairs presented in the text-world either exploiting the existing mass representations or creating new ones that eventually become socially accepted.

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The Development of Cognitive-Discourse World-Modelling Theory in European and Russian Linguistics

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War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

Ideological World Modelling in American Media Discourse

World-modelling in advertising discourse: pragmatic aspects

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