Abstract
The article is devoted to the consideration of peculiarities of the English-language news and analytic media texts about Russia, which contribute to the formation of a certain attitude towards this country. It is noted that the scope of media texts in English prevails in the global information space, which cannot but affect the viewpoint of the “average” English speaking reader. The notion of ideological modality, which is often present in media texts about Russia, is considered. The media text compositional peculiarities and linguistic means are described in connection with the impact function implementation and the certain attitude towards Russia formation.
Highlights
IntroductionMedia text is a specific term to the generic notion of mass-information discourse
Media texts are the most common type of texts
The mass information discourse can be characterized in the following way: an author of a media text distantly interacts with a mass heterogeneous audience for the purpose of informing, convincing, providing the audience with interpretation of current events, etc
Summary
Media text is a specific term to the generic notion of mass-information discourse. A separate media text is a single material implementation of mass information discourse. The mass information discourse can be characterized in the following way: an author of a media text distantly interacts with a mass heterogeneous audience for the purpose of informing, convincing, providing the audience with interpretation of current events, etc. We are interested in news and analytical Englishlanguage media texts representing political discourse. Such texts represent an ideological modality, based on the opposition "us - them", which can be not explicated, but included in the presupposition of the media text. The author of a political text affects the reader’s viewpoint intentionally or not
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