Cognitive and pragmatic aspects of food representation in media discourses. Review of a monograph: Shevchenko V., Tomascikova S. Representation of Food in Media Discourses: Cognitive and Pragmatic Aspects: monograph. Samara: Samara University Publishing House, 2021, 216 p. ISBN 978-5-7883-1588-1

Abstract

The present article reviews the monograph Representation of Food in Media Discourses: Cognitive and Pragmatic Aspects by V. Shevchenko and S. Tomascikova, which is devoted to investigating the process of cognitive models realization referring to food representation in American, British and Russian media discourses. The undertaken comparative analysis has demonstrated that the journalists tend to foreground the specific constituents of the cognitive models in accordance with their pragmatic goals. The author comes to a conclusion that the published monograph is a significant investigation of the essential problem of cognitive models and it contains important theoretical and practical results which can be used by teaching staff, graduate and postgraduate students in their scientific and educational activities.

Keywords

• cognitive models
• food, media discourse
• pragmatic goals