Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Jan 2023)
CONTEMPORARY NEWS STORIES IN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE MEDIA DISCOURSE
Abstract
The paper examines the specificity of the strategic usage of meaningful linguistic resources in contemporary news stories in a multimodal environment in English-language media discourse. The study is based on the understanding of language as a set of semiotic resources and employs discursive methods of analysis. The findings demonstrate a multifunctional nature of the combination of linguistic choices and visual components in describing a particular event in the news and addressing target audiences around the globe. Verbal and visual elements such as allusions, metaphors, a play on words, a variety of stylistic devices, pictures, and graphic expressive means construct a news story and shape the perception of the message. The results of the study can be useful in the sphere of media.
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