Linguocultural lexical timers and chronemes in the informative code of journalistic discourse (on the material of the magazines National Geographic and Vokrug Sveta (Around the World))

Abstract

The article describes the nominative fi eld of the dominant concept “Time” by identifying the peculiarities of the representation of chronemes and linguocultural lexical timers in the discursive temporal architectonics of journalistic articles on Arabic architecture published in the magazines Vokrug Sveta and National Geographic. The research is determined by the need for taxonomic modeling of the nominative fi eld of the dominant concept “Time” from the perspective of its contextual coupling with the linguocultural range of descriptions of ancient Arabic urban architecture in the journalistic discourse of English-language and Russian-language magazines. The article “The Earth and the Sun of Tunisia” by V. Zakharchenko and V. Kaboshkin as well as the article “These 5 destinations are among the holiest sites in Islam”, written by the editor of the National Geographic magazine, were both considered for the temporal components of the nominative field of the dominant concept “Time”. Their comparative analysis showed trends in the use of temporal markers in the discursive informative code of journalistic texts. The findings indicate that the article by V. Zakharchenko and V. Kaboshkin “The Earth and the Sun of Tunisia” published in the magazine Vokrug Sveta, and the editorial article “These 5 destinations are among the holiest sites in Islam” published in the National Geographic magazine contain 25 and 23 chronemes and linguocultural lexical timers, respectively. The identifi ed temporal markers are used as a reference to the historical period during which a particular architectural construction was created in the urban space. The result of this article involves the replenishment of the theoretical data on the features of the nominative field of the dominant concept “Time” represented by various chronemes and linguocultural lexical timers in journalistic discourse, as well as in the presentation of the author’s classifi cation of chronemes identifi ed in the journalistic texts on Arabic architecture taken from the magazines Vokrug Sveta and National Geographic. The obtained research results can be applied in lectures and seminars on discourse studies, intercultural communication, cognitive linguistics, text theory, in seminars on the interpretation of the discursive informative code of the nominative field of the dominant concept “Time”.

Keywords

• journalistic discourse
• linguocultural lexical timers
• chronemes
• discursive informative code
• dominant concept