War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse
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...
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2021-12-01
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| author | Olga A. Solopova Svetlana L. Kushneruk |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-afbdaae742ea4b5b9bc7c20ea42f96352022-12-21T19:22:28ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Russian Journal of Linguistics2687-00882686-80242021-12-0125372374510.22363/2687-0088-2021-25-3-723-74520461War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourseOlga A. Solopova0Svetlana L. Kushneruk1South Ural State University (National Research University)Chelyabinsk State UniversityThe 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.http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/viewFile/27481/19810british media discourseinformation warframing theorydiagnostic frameprognostic framediachronic analysis |
| spellingShingle | Olga A. Solopova Svetlana L. Kushneruk War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse Russian Journal of Linguistics british media discourse information war framing theory diagnostic frame prognostic frame diachronic analysis |
| title | War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse |
| title_full | War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse |
| title_fullStr | War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse |
| title_full_unstemmed | War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse |
| title_short | War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse |
| title_sort | war yesterday and today the image of russia in british media discourse |
| topic | british media discourse information war framing theory diagnostic frame prognostic frame diachronic analysis |
| url | http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/viewFile/27481/19810 |
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