Discourse Analysis in the 21st Century: Theory and Practice (I)

Ponton, Douglas Mark; Larina, Tatiana V.

doi:10.22363/2312-9182-2016-20-4-7-25

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“…The material for the linguistic analysis was obtained from British and American quality newspapers (The Guardian, Independent, The Times, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Washington Post) for the period 2018-2020. The text were analysed with the implementation of combined methodology, the combination of traditional teaching techniques with discourse analysis (Fairclough 2001, Ponton and Larina 2016, Richardson 2007, complemented by constructivist approach (Kurteš 2017, Ozyumenko 2020, which constitutes a relevant method of SL teaching and learning.…”

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Teaching Epistemic Modality Through a Newspaper Text

Ozyumenko¹

2021

Proceedings of INTCESS 2021- 8th International Conference on Education and Education of Social Sciences

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Epistemic modality which deals with possibility (validity) and predictability is quite a complicated grammar topic for second language learners in comparison with deontic modality which indicates obligation, permission and desirability. While deontic modality refers to more evident attitudes, epistemic modality deals with subtle nuances of reality. The problem is aggravated by the fact that core English modal verbs (must, can, may, might, should, etc.) are duel and can express both types of modal meaning. Besides, a set of language means which express epistemic modality is rather extensive, and includes various adverbs and adjectives, e. g. possible, possibly, probably, perhaps, likely, unlikely, presumably, etc. The article aims to highlight difficulties in the acquisition of epistemic modality and suggest some teaching techniques to master it. The material for the linguistic analysis was obtained from British and American quality newspapers (The Guardian, Independent, The Times, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Washington Post) for the period 2018-2020. The paper argues that epistemic modality should be in the ESL teacher's focus not only at the grammar lessons but during the whole teaching process. Classes of translation might give a good opportunity to develop the relevant skills to discern epistemic modality and define its function in the text. In this paper I analyse newspaper texts and show that media writers often resort to epistemic modality as a means of creating ambiguity and uncertainty to articulate their ideas in an indirect and subtle way and thus to influence the public opinion. I argue that to understand the function of epistemic modals in the text and discover the author's message a thorough analysis of the text and context is needed. The combination of traditional teaching techniques with discourse-pragmatic analysis complemented by constructivist approach constitutes a relevant method of SL teaching and learning. It contributes to developing translation skills and educating independent thinkers.

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Teaching Epistemic Modality Through a Newspaper Text

Ozyumenko¹

2021

Proceedings of INTCESS 2021- 8th International Conference on Education and Education of Social Sciences

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“…Ponton [7] theorized that analyzing a discourse we should not fix our attention on individual forms of manipulation. Indeed, the majority of manipulations is considered to be carried out through figurative lexis, although sometimes a certain degree of literalism could be observed.…”

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“…Here, it is necessary to clarify the peculiarities of this criteria category. An interesting example of how the information may be presented to the reader is the samples ( 6) and (7). These sentences actually belong to one passage of the article from The Independent, and shows the way of transmitting a message favorable to the manipulator.…”

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Linguocognitive Analysis of Manipulative Political Discourse

DEVIATNIKOVA¹

2021

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The aim of this chapter is to determine the predominant criteria of manipulative political discourse by linguocognitive analysis of their manifestations in online newspapers. The author considers manipulation as a phenomenon of hidden and forcible influence, with both psychological and linguistic nature. Examples are selected from the popular online newspapers: The New York Times, The Independent, the CNBC, the European Security and Defense, the BBC. The study of the manipulative political discourse is conducted referring to the pragmatic approach and the critical discourse analysis. The research includes both qualitative and quantitative methods of evaluation based on the data provided by the expert group. The following predominant criteria of manipulative message have been differentiated: reinforcement, ambiguity, negativity, identification, and emotionality. The defined expressiveness of each criteria shows pragmatic aspect of manipulative political discourse in regard of its effect on the recipient. This section is expected to introduce criteria system of manipulative discourse evaluation. It also suggests prospect of further development of this research field.

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“…Linguistic consciousness (hereinafter -LC) occupies an important place in the subject matter field of psycholinguistics and several other humanitarian disciplines (Abildinova, 2018;Benda, 1959;Chafe, 1974;Chomsky, 2006;Galperin, 1992;Leontev, 1969 et al). Researchers pay special attention to discourse as a qualitative and quantitative unit of LC (Foucault, 1972;Grosz, Joshi & Weinstein, 1995;Hart, 2016;Hunt, 1977;Joshi, Prince & Walker, 1998;Lacan, 1971;Machin, 2013;Ponton & Larina, 2016;Taboada & Zabala, 2008 et al). A separate applied demand for the study of LC discourseology is actualized by the computer sciences dealing with the natural language processing issue (Batista-Navarro et al, 2013;Crossley et al, 2014;Forsythand & Martell, 2007;Grosz & Sidner, 1986;Péry-Woodley & Scott, 2006;McNamara et al, 2018 et al).…”

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Discourseology of Linguistic Consciousness: Neural Network Modeling of some Structural and Semantic Relationships

Shymko

2021

Psycholing.

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Objective. Study of the validity and reliability of the discourse approach for the psycholinguistic understanding of the nature, structure, and features of the linguistic consciousness functioning. Materials & Methods. This paper analyzes artificial neural network models built on the corpus of texts, which were obtained in the process of experimental research of the coronavirus quarantine concept as a new category of linguistic consciousness. The methodology of feedforward artificial neural networks (multilayer perceptron) was used in order to assess the possibility of predicting the leading texts semantics based on the discourses ranks and their place in the respective linear sequence. Same baseline parameters were used to predict respondents' self-assessments of changes in their psychological well-being and in daily life routine during the quarantine, as well as to predict their preferences of the quarantine strategies. The study relied on basic ideas about discourse as a meaning constituted by the dispersion of other meanings (Foucault). The same dispersion mechanism realizes itself in interdiscourse interaction, forming a discursive formation at a higher level. The method of T-units (Hunt) was used to identify and count discourses in the texts. The ranking of discourses was provided based on the criterion of their semantic-syntactic autonomy. Results. The conducted neural network modeling revealed a high accuracy in predicting the work of the linguistic consciousness functions associated with retrospective self-assessment and anticipatory imagination of the respondents. Another result of this modeling is a partial confirmation of the assumption concerning existence a relationship between the structural parameters of the discursive field (the rank of the discourses and their place in the respective linear sequence) and the leading semantics of the text. Conclusions. A discourse approach to the study of linguistic consciousness, understanding of its structure and functioning features seems to be reasonably appropriate. The implementation of the approach presupposes the need to form a base of linguistic corpora with the inclusion in each text markup of such parameters as: the presence of specific discourses, their ranks, positions in the linear sequence of discourses.

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Discourse Analysis in the 21st Century: Theory and Practice (I)

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Teaching Epistemic Modality Through a Newspaper Text

Teaching Epistemic Modality Through a Newspaper Text

Linguocognitive Analysis of Manipulative Political Discourse

Discourseology of Linguistic Consciousness: Neural Network Modeling of some Structural and Semantic Relationships

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