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{"title":"Network Discourse on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Positive vs Negative Sentiments on Twitter","authors":"V. Katermina, A. Gnedash","doi":"10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.4.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.4.4","url":null,"abstract":"The article solves the problem of identifying markers of positive or negative sentiment in the network discourse that is formed in social networks in relation to a particular politician. The theoretical and methodological foundations of the study were the basics of network linguistics, the network approach, Big Data. To conduct an empirical study using the method of continuous sampling for the keyword \"Boris Johnson\", data from the social network Twitter was uploaded from May 15 to July 15, 2021 through the Twitter API service. The received dataset amounted to 1 million 900 thousand messages which were divided into a dataset of messages with a positive sentiment and a dataset of messages with a negative sentiment. In each dataset, frequently used fragments are identified and subjected to linguistic discursive analysis. As a result of their analysis, markers of the positive and negative sentiment of the online discourse that is emerging in the Internet space in relation to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have been identified. They reflect public opinion, the level of trust in a politician, the pole of evaluation of his activities. Considering such markers when developing strategies for working with public opinion will allow changes in the image and reputational potential of public figures and organizations both online and offline.","PeriodicalId":42545,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta-Seriya 2-Yazykoznanie","volume":"314 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86769807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Internet Memes as a Relevant Format of Political Communication in Germany (The Case of the Thematic Group “Olaf Scholz”)","authors":"L. Rebrina, N. Shamne","doi":"10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.4.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.4.3","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the study of the semantic and functional characteristics of political Internet memes of the thematic group \"Olaf Scholz\" in 2020–2022 in Germany. The main parameters for characteristics of memes include place and date, types of addressing, origin and initiator, object and subject of ironic-critical interpretation, the level of inclusion in culture, replicated components, functioning specifics of the precedent phenomenon, interaction paths between visual and verbal, patterns of meaning generation, means of creating comic effect, resulting impact, field structure, genre varieties. Most memes about O. Scholz spontaneously originated within the German linguaculture, reflect the reaction to a specific event, and are addressed to a part of society that is informed about the current national political agenda. The object of criticism unite both characteristics of a politician and his actions. The main subjects of criticism include incompetence, bad reputation, denial of the obvious, insufficient attention to national interests, low performance. Memes appeal mainly to actual precedent phenomena. The background of the precedent phenomenon rarely plays a significant role in generating meaning. The visual component is mostly subject to replication. The visual arrangement imminently contains the image of O. Scholz, optionally bearing symbols of certain actions / events / values, other people with stereotyped relationships, spatial objects as signs of properties attributed to the leader. Consonance-and-complementary relations prevail in coordination among visual and verbal representations. The main sources of the comic effect embody dissonance of the verbal and visual components, transfer of the case of the everyday sphere to the political one; visual accentuation of the elements of the verbal component; identification of the object of criticism with a comic character. Relevant genre varieties of memes about O. Scholz are macros, advice and demotivational memes, and IM parodies. A meme has a field organization, including a constant core formed by a visual template and the generalized meaning.","PeriodicalId":42545,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta-Seriya 2-Yazykoznanie","volume":"281 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76804569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender-Relevant Features of Imposing Expert Opinion in Online Communication of Pandemic Period","authors":"O. Gukosyants","doi":"10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.4.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.4.9","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the identification of gender peculiarities in applying the strategy of expert opinion demonstration as one of the ways to manipulate recipients on the Internet. On the basis of linguistic analysis of English blogs with expert content selected by the method of continuous sampling, specific speech tactics which express gender identity in the process of expert opinion presentation are characterized. The interdependence between the functional load of the blogs and the speech tools used by the bloggers is established and analyzed. It was revealed that female experts implemented the tactics of uncertainty, justification and intimacy expressed in conditional sentences, just to convey hesitation, means of semantic hyperbolization of speech, appeal to another person's opinion and the results of other people's research, quotes, dialogicity of utterances in the blogs. The blogs created by male experts featured implementation of the tactics of we-community, knowledge demonstration, intimidation, beliefs with high degree of textual cohesion, description of negative scenario in case of the expert's recommendations ignoring, rhetorical questions and adverb instead embedding, negative constructions and verbs in the imperative mood. The identified tactics and speech means used for these tactics implementation are qualified as gender markers of manipulative influence on the user through the expression of expert opinion.","PeriodicalId":42545,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta-Seriya 2-Yazykoznanie","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76951689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factoid vs Fake: Identification and Analysis Models","authors":"N. Prom","doi":"10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.4.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.4.11","url":null,"abstract":"The relevance of the study is due to the problem of inaccurate information identification in the media space. The legislative acts designed to solve this problem do not offer terms for this kind of messages, and current methods of linguistic examination do not provide tools for distinguishing inaccurate messages with different intentional bases. A review of approaches to qualifying inaccurate information in media linguistics and in the field of forensic linguistics has been conducted. Fact-forming principles have been highlighted; they allow the creator of a distorted fact to make deceit invisible and effective, which results in the interiorization of this fact in the minds of mass audience. Inaccurate messages that distort reality are proposed to be divided into two groups, namely, factoids and fakes. The former are socially dangerous plausible information that claims to be a real fact. The latter are messages that suggest entertaining and playful understanding and do not pose a threat of harm to human life. Models of linguistic analysis of factoids performing a manipulative function and fakes aimed at entertaining the audience have been developed. Particular attention is paid to the criteria for distinguishing fakes and factoids; an example of inaccurate information, demonstrating signs of both pragmatic types for a manipulation purpose, was considered.","PeriodicalId":42545,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta-Seriya 2-Yazykoznanie","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90419032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluative Utterance in the English Fictional Discourse (19th and the First Half of the 20th Century)","authors":"Olga Byessonova, Oksana Ostashova","doi":"10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.4.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.4.5","url":null,"abstract":"The article addresses evaluative utterance, which is considered in terms of its subject-matter, semantics and structure on the material of British and American fictional discourse of the 19 th and the first half of the 20th centuries. The classification of value-related objects of evaluation as reflected in the fictional discourse of the selected periods is presented. The suggested classification incorporates evaluative utterances describing two thematic spheres, i.e. \"Human being\" and \"Surrounding world\". The dynamics of positive and negative evaluative utterance types in the period under study is described. The proportion of emotional and rational components in the complex meaning of evaluative utterances is determined. Trends in evolution of semantic types of evaluative utterances in the English fictional discourse of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries are brought into the open. Structural types of sentences, in which evaluative attitude is verbalized, are singled out, with their communicative productivity being identified and compared. The structural components of the evaluative predicate are outlined. Frequency value of morphological-and-semantic evaluative means and means of a mixed type is identified in the fictional discourse under analysis. Means of modifying the expressiveness degree in the evaluative utterances are described. The suggested approach to the evaluative utterances in the fictional discourse demonstrates the dynamics of axiological worldview of the speaking community. The growing trends for communicative compression and transparency, for the increase in emotiveness of evaluative utterances and a greater degree of gradation of the evaluative attribute, as well as the corresponding language changes, related to the phenomenon of evaluative utterance, are reflected in the linguistic worldview.","PeriodicalId":42545,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta-Seriya 2-Yazykoznanie","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88076721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Implicit Speech Aggression in the Texts of the Contemporary British Mass Media","authors":"Vladimir Maevskiy","doi":"10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.4.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.4.8","url":null,"abstract":"Speech aggression, which is actively used in modern media discourse, is becoming one of the tools for influencing the target audience in \"information wars\": the world-famous mass media use a form of implicit speech aggression to manipulate public opinion globally. Research methods include frame analysis, qualitative and quantitative content analysis, and discourse analysis with the subsequent revelation of implicit speech aggression. The research material was 150 articles on foreign and domestic policy issues, which were published in 2019–2020 in the periodicals \"The Times\", \"The Guardian\" and \"The Observer\". The article considers the frequency of speech aggression used in the texts of the British mass media as a means of implicit influence on the readership. According to the results of the study, there are trends in the use of implicatures that potentially express verbal aggression. These implicatures are shown to appear mainly in conflictogenic texts, which contain the materials with varying degree of hostility – from insult to verbal extremism. Such frames as \"COVID-19 policy\", \"Post-Brexit relations with EU\", \"Sanctions against the political regime in Russia\" are noted to prevail in the publications. The most frequent means of implicit verbal aggression realization in the leading British mass media are false accusation, sarcasm, metaphor, mockery, reproach, irony, and threat.","PeriodicalId":42545,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta-Seriya 2-Yazykoznanie","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86833607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Networked Linguistic Data and Discourse Management: The 2020 US Presidential Election","authors":"O. Malysheva, N. Ryabchenko","doi":"10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.3.4","url":null,"abstract":"The article introduces the methodology used for analyzing networked linguistic data, regarded as a basis of global online discursive fields. The authors scrutinized the discursive fields, which emerged during 2020 US Presidential Election.The research methodology, which combines natural science methods (mathematical analysis, graph theory, network analysis and relational analysis) and modern methods of linguistic research (complex linguo-discursive analysis, and methods of network linguistics), makes it possible to analyze discursive fields as social graphs, identify narratives and discourses that form the basis of the modern global communication space, and their potential for manipulating. The empirical base of the study is comprised of bulks of networked data that include the messages published by ordinary users and D. Trump's team on Twitter platform in March – October 2020. The application of the authors' technique has resulted in discursive fields visualization, abnormal discursive activity areas identification, the interaction of discourses within the discursive field description, the mode of messages and their recurrence level determination. It is shown that the analysis of Internet communication using the developed methodology contribute to understanding the essence of socio-political and socio-economic processes and deepening the predictive analytics of their development, and can also be used for discursive management in order to strengthen constructive and neutralize destructive social practices in online space.","PeriodicalId":42545,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta-Seriya 2-Yazykoznanie","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88733291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The “Digital Generation” is Learning to Read: Linguistic Factors of Eye Movement Parameters of Russian Schoolchildren of the 1st – 3rd Grades","authors":"A. Puchkova, M. Lebedeva, A. Laposhina","doi":"10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"The level of reading literacy of the modern \"digital generation\" is an acute and significant topic. To explore this problem in dynamics it is necessary to objectively record the parameters of reading skills development in modern children. The article presents the results of an experimental study of the reading mechanism of elementary school students, performed using eye tracking. Fifty-three pupils in grades 1–3 of Moscow schools participated in the experiment, with real texts from Russian textbooks as stimulus material. Eye movements were recorded while reading texts from the screen, and after each text a comprehension question was asked. The results indicated a direct correlation between oculomotor characteristics and reading skill. From grade 1 to grade 3, the duration and number of fixations, amplitude duration, and reading time for both word and letter decreased, while the number of words with one or missing fixation increased. There was also a grade-independent effect of word length and word frequency factors on reading speed and oculomotor activity for students in all grades. Both factors had a significant effect on reading time, the average fixation duration was more sensitive to the frequency factor than to the word length factor, while word length alone influenced the first fixation duration.","PeriodicalId":42545,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta-Seriya 2-Yazykoznanie","volume":"157 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73114532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Smart Tuning” as a Discourse Technology of Effective Communication (On the Material of the Coronavirus Vaccination Media Discourse)","authors":"I. Iakoba","doi":"10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.3.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.3.9","url":null,"abstract":"The article offers a solution to the problem of effective communication through the construction of discursive technology that is called the \"Smart Tuning\" technology (STT). It is positioned as one of the most effective means of achieving results in media discourse. The STT is aimed at identifying cognitive-communicative parameters and linguocognitive mechanisms that enhance the impact. The main methods used in the research include cognitive modeling, inference-driven interpretation and linguoaxiological analysis. One of the hot topics today \"coronavirus vaccination\" allows us to demonstrate how media discourse is managed through the powers of discourse. The peculiarities are highlighted and the hard, soft and smart discourse powers example analysis is provided. It is proved that the action of each power is based on revealed parameters (the situation attractiveness, the horizon of the addressee's expectations, the communication mode, the strength of the addresser's position, the message attraction, harmonization, modalization, patterning, multimodality, synergy, sense-rhythmic modulations, tension) and is promoted by mechanisms (involvement, defocusing, dialogization, imagining, inspiration, metaphorization, personalization, positioning, reframing, spin-doctoring, focusing, framing). It is shown that, depending on the social status of the addressee, the relationship between the addresser and the addressee, the strength of the addresser's position, the message importance, the most effective discursive power are selected to provide more efficient impact. Such mechanisms as focusing, framing, imagining, positioning were revealed as the most frequent. In the future, it is possible to expand the analysis on the material of other discourse types in other languages.","PeriodicalId":42545,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta-Seriya 2-Yazykoznanie","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79822870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Functional Illiteracy as Consequence of “Intellection’s Subject Change”","authors":"V. Pishchalnikova, N. Fenenko","doi":"10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"The most important reason for the formation of functional illiteracy is the impact of the digital information environment, in which the reduplication of knowledge as an activity is purposefully distributed. This method, becoming one of the main ones due to low energy consumption, reduces the degree of personal responsibility of the individual for the nature and meaningfulness of the activity. Reduplication and imitation as mental operations are supported by changes in memory, which is increasingly becoming transactive. The authors analyze one of the manifestations of functional illiteracy – the lack of neurophysiological operations in a significant part of the examined students, which are necessary for the full cycle of meaning generation. The authors found the most typical errors in student translations, which reflect cognitive alteration in mental activity of students thus pointing to the cognitive subject shift. The results of the analysis of the students' translation activity showed that it forms a stable tendency towards \"simplification of meanings\", that arises from the use of only nominative meanings, enables the use of an out-of-context and non-associative meaning of the word, promotes operating with approximate meanings, reflects the desire to identify the units with the same root, but different in lexeme value. It is proved that this is largely a consequence of the active use of various types of visual signs and a partial change in the quality of a verbal sign in the digital information space.","PeriodicalId":42545,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta-Seriya 2-Yazykoznanie","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86331590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}