Author’s name:
Ekaterina Yu. Andreeva – Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
The article looks at the image of the coronavirus reflected in the language of modern mass media texts, covering social, economic and political spheres, from a linguistic point of view. The aim of the research is to identify the role of lexical and syntactic means in expressing emotions in English-language online articles, video, and radio podcasts that contain information about the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic all over the world. Since the article examines a relatively recent globally significant phenomenon and provides analysis of the latest materials with illustrations of how they function in modern media texts, its relevance is obvious. The author presents a classification of the most common types of emotions expressed in contemporary media texts relative to the coronavirus pandemic. This classification singles out the most frequently observed types of emotions (positive and negative) and traces the link between types of emotion and ways of their expression. For the purposes of the analysis, the emotive lexical and syntactic means are split into several groups. Within each of the groups, there is a division into lexical means (namely stylistically marked lexical items and literary devices) and syntactic means (communicative types of sentences and violations of syntactic structures of sentences). The author identifies the most frequently used items, structures, and devices in oral and written media texts, presenting the results of the research in the form of a table. The results and conclusions of the study may serve as foundation for further research into the role of lexical and syntactic means that help to convey various shades of emotions in mass media texts.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072 3490/lunn2023-63-3-9-23 |
| Downloads | 408 |
| Key words | expressive means; syntax; lexis; representation of emotions; COVID-19; mass media |