Pandemic in 2021 “economist” discource

Sivaieva, Olga (2023) Pandemic in 2021 “economist” discource Вчені записки Таврійського національного університету імені В.І. Вернадського. Серія: Філологія. Журналістика (5). pp. 100-104. ISSN 2710-4664

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Abstract

The research is dedicated to the corpus analysis of the semantic prosody of collocations with PANDEMIC in “The Economist”. The corpus has been processed with the help of Voyant Tools. Text passages containing collocations with PANDEMIC have been analyzed in order to state the prosody mode of the collocation in the context. The study mostly pays attention to determine discursive peculiarities of collocations with PANDEMIC in The Economist issues published in 2021. The dictionary definition of PANDEMIC defines it as a word with negative semantic prosody, whereas the discourse analysis demonstrates that collocations containing the lemma PANDEMIC can have positive, negative or neutral semantic coloring, which depends on the contextual meaning of the analyzed passage and which is also based on the semantic prosody mode of other words in the passage, which actually designates and presupposes the mode of the collocations in question. Although verbs such as to be and to have did not reveal much about the semantic prosodies of the word PANDEMIC, others, like hit and strike, appeared to be used negatively, justifying the pejorative effects that the pandemic had. The verb lift was perhaps more positive, speaking of the lifting of pandemic�related restrictions, whilst fear had a negative connotation and referred to the public worrying about the duration of the pandemic. Collocations PANDEMIC + throughout and before have a neutral semantic prosody, which shows that such collocations are used in text passages in the surrounding of neither positive nor negative words and the whole passage serves as a statement of some facts without being evaluated. Many of the collocates of PANDEMIC related to time (e.g., during, since, throughout, start, before, began, behind), which will be explored in further detail.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: semantic prosody; corpus analysis; collocations; PANDEMIC; media discourse; The Economist
Subjects: Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Index Copernicus
Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у журналах > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions: Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Факультет романо-германської філології > Кафедра германської філології
Depositing User: Ольга Сергіїївна Сіваєва
Date Deposited: 28 Dec 2023 08:11
Last Modified: 28 Dec 2023 08:12
URI: https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/48116

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