Cognitive “warning signs”in human trafficking media texts

Палійчук, Еліна Олександрівна (2022) Cognitive “warning signs”in human trafficking media texts Crossroads. (38). с. 41-65. ISSN 2300-6250

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Анотація

This paper focuses on image schema manifestations in media texts on human trafficking, which may perform the role of “warning” signals in anti-trafficking media campaigns. For this, a conceptual analysis was done to establish profiled image schemas, and a survey was conducted to measure the readerʼs response to two types of texts on human trafficking (HT), different in genre and schemata organisation. The texts were selected as experimental material representing typical human trafficking media discourse. The participants were divided into control (G1) and experimental (G2) groups according to the type of text they were exposed to. G1 read an expository text (T1) and G2 read a media narrative (T2). The respondents of G2 showed a significant tendency for a higher degree of involvement in the problem of human trafficking when reading T2 as contrasted to the responses of G1 to T1. G2 identified their reaction as a feeling being in danger. Looking back to T2, it was clear that respondents reacted to verbal manifestations of prevailing CONTAINMENT and SCALE/ PROCESS/UP schemata clusters. G1 gave the weaker emotional response to T1 with verbal manifestations of UP, BLOCKAGE, and COUNTERFORCE schemata. It can be assumed that CONTAINMENT is the image schema organising spatial representation of human trafficking fromthe victimʼs perspective, conveying the feeling of being contained, being in a difficult situation, being in an enclosed space, supported with other schemata manifestations through the lens of the concept of bigness, large scale, growing process, etc. The results may be used in anti-trafficking content as a new methodology for raising awareness in a target audience vulnerable to HT. © 2022, Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok. All rights reserved.

Тип елементу :	Стаття
Ключові слова:	conceptual analysis; empirical study; human trafficking; image-schemas; media texts; warning signs
Типологія:	Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Erih Plus Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Scopus
Підрозділи:	Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Факультет романо-германської філології > Кафедра лінгвістики та перекладу
Користувач, що депонує:	ст. викл. Еліна Олександрівна Палійчук
Дата внесення:	17 Серп 2023 07:38
Останні зміни:	17 Серп 2023 07:38
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/45847

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