Abstract
This paper outlines the study of the USA newspaper discourse from psycholinguistic perspectives. The research aims to thoroughly investigate the profound priorities, inconspicuous intentions of leading American mass media. The frame analysis has been used in our research. It is based on the cognitive theories of the representation of the speaker’s knowledge, which retain verbal representation in speech, that is, frames. The main task of this analysis is to determine the leading categories, expressed by frame structures, which include slots containing the main ideas that the author wants to present to his audience. The research went through some stages which aimed at working on the most essential categories in the three articles and filling all the categories with the appropriate slots. The study revealed that most of the articles had three substantial categories which made it possible to fully analyze the authors’ intentions. The slot surveillance that makes the category vigilance very prominent is the paramount idea found in all the articles under discussion. It is realized via facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence. Among other vital categories are technological advances, protection, confidentiality, social interaction, credit system, personal data. All these categories have one thing in common as they are used as means for China people surveillance.
Highlights
Nowadays mass media is the method for providing the information but a powerful tool to influence on people masses as well
That’s why the interest to the concept of newspaper discourse is grabbing the attention of lots of scholars
Identification and analysis of certain patterns, regularities and dependencies of leading American media are vitally important. This will reveal the hidden purpose, true intentions and the main idea of the information provided, which is in its turn will allow us to get point of better understanding the peculiarities of the United States attitude via the given issue
Summary
Nowadays mass media is the method for providing the information but a powerful tool to influence on people masses as well. Identification and analysis of certain patterns, regularities and dependencies of leading American media are vitally important. This will reveal the hidden purpose, true intentions and the main idea of the information provided, which is in its turn will allow us to get point of better understanding the peculiarities of the United States attitude via the given issue. The topicality of our research is viewed via psycholinguistic approach of the study of the newspaper discourse. Touching upon psychological aspects of person’s comprehension and perceiving the information psycholinguistic method, frame analysis in particular, works on spreading the information among people of different background.
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