Imagery in Political Mass Media Discourse

DOI

10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.60How to use a DOI?

Keywords

image, imagery, political discourse, mass media, idiom

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of figurative means (zoomorphic, somatic and substantive metaphors) in the English language in the discourse of political mass-media. Language plays a role in developing and evolving into a systematic language, so it constantly needs support in the language and the reflections in the changes which in its turn stimulates linguistic processes. The significant peculiarity of vocabulary is its inherent direction to the phenomena of reality, that’s why it is the vocabulary that reflects all the changes happening in the public life, which inevitably leads to the formation of new nominations. Figurative means in English political mass-media are of peculiar interest to scholars as a word in this sphere of life should possess expressiveness, draw the attention of the audience for which in some cases lexical units capable of fulfilling a certain communicative task are formed. And the dissemination of these new words is a popular means of mass media. The article underlines that the analysis of figurative means in the English language in the discourse of political mass-media contributes to the understanding of typical and specific peculiarities of a people by a language personality, and as a result of a description of cultural interpretation of a basis of the analyzed units conceptual values of the people based on their mentality, typical traits of an ethnos can be singled out.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Veronika Katermina
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - Imagery in Political Mass Media Discourse
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Pedagogy, Communication and Sociology (ICPCS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 270
EP  - 273
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.60
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