The Concept of Conflict Semantic Explication Within the Functional Terminological Field (Based on the Analysis of Russian and International Media Sourses)

Abstract

The study attempts to carry out an objective analysis of conflict as the main component of social dynamics in an interdisciplinary manner and within the paradigm of intercultural comparative research. In order to achieve this goal, an experimental study of the ways to conceptualize conflict in the functional field of media discourse was conducted. The object of the study is the content of the websites of twelve leading newspaper publications from five countries during the period of 2020–2022: Russia, Great Britain, the USA, India and China. The choice of media sources is predetermined by their leading role in the national media markets (top 10 national newspapers), as well as by similar characteristics: socio-political course, mass audience, and daily issuing. To study the degree of conflict manifestation, we used the Integrum media monitoring and analytical system which contains full-text electronic archives of more than 120,000 publications, including those selected for the study. To understand the dynamics of publicational activity, the total number of conflict-related texts for every year between 2020 and 2022 for each media source the quantitative analysis based on the detection of conflict attributes was performed. The share of conflict-related media texts in the overall agenda was revealed. The further analysis of semantic features combined within the most significant thematic categories shed light on the specificity of conceptual pattern typical of the countries under investigation.