RUSSIA AS A TARGET DOMAIN IN AMERICAN, BRITISH AND CANADIAN POLITICAL DISCOURSES

Authors

  • Olga Solopova South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation
  • Maria Ilyushkina Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation

Keywords:

corpus linguistics, NOW corpus, methods of corpus analysis, cognitive-discursive approach, metaphor, political discourse, image of Russia

Abstract

This article presents a fragment of the study of political metaphors involved in shaping the image of
Russia in English mass media. Using corpus technologies, an array of material was analyzed in an
original way from the NOW English-language corpus (electronic versions of articles from American,
British and Canadian newspapers and magazines for June 12, 2016) – dominant metaphorical models,
their most frequent frames, the models’ discursive characteristics, and pragmatic potential were
revealed. The significance of the work is the use of corpus linguistics methods to study political
metaphors, which greatly enriches the set of methods for studying political metaphors, increasing the
representativeness and objectivity of the results obtained.

Author Biographies

Olga Solopova, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

doctoral degree in philology, professor, Linguistics and Translation Chair, South Ural State
University (Chelyabinsk), o-solopova@bk.ru

Maria Ilyushkina, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation

candidate degree in philology, associate professor, Department of Linguistics and Professional Communication in Foreign Languages, Ural Federal University, Lenin Street (Yekaterinburg), ilyushkina_
maria@mail.ru

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Published

2017-10-13

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (2017)

Section

Articles