Abstract
The article is devoted to defining the peculiarities of national perception through the analysis of the comments taken from news media. The research is based on comparative and contrastive analysis of the reader’s comments to the articles devoted to the terroristic attack in Nice happened on July 14, 2016 and reflected in mass media in the French and Russian languages. On the first stage of the research the object of comment and the peculiarities of its representation in two languages are defined. On the second stage of the research the frame analysis of the studied material is fulfilled, consisting of defining the contextual frames. The key topical subframes, which in turn are divided into slots, are determined in the structure of frames. The logical-semantic relations are built among the structural elements of frames. The possibility of crossing topically-different subframes within one frame is demonstrated. The frequency of domination of this or that slot in comments is defined and explained. The allomorphic and isomorphic features defined in the research show the peculiarities of cultural and historical values influencing national mentality.
Highlights
In recent decades the attention of the researchers in linguistics is concentrated on language peculiarities of different genres of Internet discourse, among which the following ones are dominant: chats, blogs, and forums (Orimaye et al, 2013; Cercel & Trausan-Matu, 2014; Ascone, 2015)
Some linguists single out Internet comments to news articles as a separate speech genre of Internet discourse (Saveliyeva, 2013; Abdullina et al, 2014)
The method of frame modeling allows to define contextual frames (Fillmore et al, 2003; Bayer & Riccardi, 2016), which make up the core of the frame structure and later may be subdivided into subframes – the layers which represent a set of thematically common features and are the chains of slots placed in hierarchical order (Guselnikova, 2010)
Summary
In recent decades the attention of the researchers in linguistics is concentrated on language peculiarities of different genres of Internet discourse, among which the following ones are dominant: chats, blogs, and forums (Orimaye et al, 2013; Cercel & Trausan-Matu, 2014; Ascone, 2015). The works based on the analysis of Internet comments which are increasingly popular in the news lines of different sites have appeared. Some authors devote their researches to the analysis of the microstructure of conversation and the coherence of dialogue established by cooperation of participants in Internet-comments (Hennoste et al, 2010), others study evaluative modality (Karpoyan, 2011; Koit, 2015). This research is the first attempt of the comparative analysis of comments to news articles as a genre of Internet discourse in the languages having different structure due to the pragmaticsemantic paradigm. We take into consideration the peculiarities of person’s self-awareness which is ‘determined by ethnic, confessional and historical determinants’ (Mukhametshina & Galimullina, 2014)
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