Scholarly record
COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN PRESENTING MIGRATION CRISIS IN JOURNALISM
Abstract
As journalism is viewed as a source and transporter of the values of the society and the transfer of knowledge, the study of its language is crucial when attempting to give a comprehensive analysis of the changes in axiological assumptions of the society concerning migration processes. This paper sets the goal of sorting out the most common communicative strategies used by political writers and analyzes by what language means and tactics they are mostly achieved. More than 200 articles dedicated to the problems of migration in leading British periodicals, newspapers, and news websites beginning July 2015 and ending February 2016 were subjected to a lingua cognitive analysis. To achieve the goal, we resorted to observation, comparison and generalization of factual evidence and its classification. The study revealed the use of such the communicative strategies as Building up emotional pressure, Intimidation, Pity/Guilt inducement along with Discredit, Idealization and Thought-provoking ones. To implement the above-mentioned strategies, political writers resorted to a rich variety of metaphors pertaining to such cognitive spheres as DISASTER, WAR, CRIME, BURDEN, CRISIS, CHALLENGE and WEATHER along with epithets, rhetorical questions, exaggerations, allusions, irony, puns, and alliteration. The use of creolized texts which included a lot of caricatures was mainly connected with the strategies of Intimidation, Discredit, and Provoking thought.
Publication Impact Profile
Publication details
References16
Anisimova E.E. Linguistics of the text and intercultural communication, 2003, p. 71.
Antonova Yu.A. Communicative strategies in contemporary newspaper discourse, Ekaterinburg, 2007, p.7.
Baranov A.N. Linguistic theory of argumentation, Moscow, 1990, pp 12-13.
Borisova I. N. Discursive strategies in a conversational dialogue, Russian speech as an urban culture phenomenon, Russia, 1996, pp 21– 48.
Gajkova, O.V. Election discourse as a genre of political communication, Author’s abstract. Dis. … cand. of sciences (Philology), Volgograd, 2003, p11.
Dem'jankov V.Z. On linguistic traces of knowledge transfer, Cognitive studies of the language, 2015.№.23.pp.17-29.
Ivanickij V.L. Communicative strategy of the editorial, Herald of Moscow University, 2009,№ 10, pp.117-122.
Issers O.S. Communicative strategies and tactics of the Russian speech, Moscow, 2008.
Matveeva G.G., Samarskaya I.V., Seliverstova L.N. Two schools in contemporary pragmalinguistics.Vestnik of SPb University, 2009. № 12. pp. 50-56.
Novikova V.P. Metaphorical reflection of the problems of migration in journalism, Issues of cognitive linguistics. 2016. №3.pp.141-148.
Talybina E. V., Minakova N. A. Caricature as interaction of verbal and nonverbal sign systems //Bulletin of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, series “Russian and Foreign Languages and Methods of Teaching, 2013. №1.
Sheigal E.I. Semiotics of political discourse. Volgograd, 2000.
News of The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) Available at: http://www.bbc.com (accessed: July – October 2016).
The Economist. Available at: http://www.economist.com(accessed: February-October2016).
The Independent (British national daily newspaper). Available at: www.independent.co.uk. (accessed: July – October 2016).
The Guardian. (British national daily newspaper). Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/international (accessed July - October 2016).
View or Download full articleAccess options
SWS access login
Login as SWS Scientific CommitteeLogin as SWS Scientific PartnerLogin as SWS AuthorAuthors and approved SWS contributors will read and export their own linked papers after identity matching by SWS profile, email and SGEM GlobalID.
For librarian assistance: [email protected]
Purchase Instant Access
- Article can be downloaded after successful payment.
- Article may be used according to SWS library access terms.
- Article cannot be redistributed.
