Svetlana KushnerukChelyabinsk State University · Department of Linguistics and Translation
Svetlana Kushneruk
Doctor of Philology
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Svetlana Kushneruk currently works as Professor of the Theory and Practice of the English Language Department at Chelyabinsk State University, Russia. Svetlana does research in Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Linguistics. Their current projects are 'World-Modeling in the context of Social interaction'; 'Representation of social problems in the digital discourse'.
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In the first quarter of the XXI century, world-modeling has been actively discussed in the theory of literature, text studies and discourse studies. The concept of world-modeling in linguistics significantly differs from that in literary studies, which determines the relevance of this research. The paper aims to review the publications by Russian s...
The paper upholds the problem of the discursive representation of the migrant workers from Central Asia and Transcaucasia on Telegram. The premise is that social problems become more ‘salient’ in discourse due to framing. The objective of the research is to identify frames interpreting labour migration, explain how telegrammers generate meanings ab...
The paper presents the results of a media linguistic study of Telegram discourse as a segment of the Internet viewed in a system of characteristics determined by the multimedia organization of communication in the social network. The objective of the research is to work out relevant parameters for analyzing Telegram discourse as a format, taking in...
Urban identity is a complex phenomenon encompassing a wide range of city life aspects, which vary across cultures. In the media discourse, the urban issues are made prominent due to framing. The goal of the authors is to identify and systematize frames that generate meanings about the urban life, and explain them from the point of view of the journ...
The features of media framing of ideas about the strategically important industrial region for Russia in the American media is discussed in the article. A noticeable increase in foreign journalistic publications covering the problems of the Chelyabinsk region in the period from 2010 to 2021 determines the relevance of studying the generation of mea...
The paper aims, within the cognitive-discursive paradigm, at analyzing framing of one of the major political events in 2020 — the election of the President in Belarus, covered in the discourse of a Telegram channel. The author focuses on identifying mechanisms of destructive influence exerted on mass subscribers of a cross-platform messenger during...
The article deals with the peculiarities of cognitive and discursive world-modeling, which reflects sense-making about the large Russian city of Chelyabinsk and its residents, in a journalistic narrative. The paper relevance lies in the necessity of studying conceptual and informational models of reality, which represent life activity of strategica...
The authors of the article investigate the texts of the opposition Telegram channel “Belarus of the Brain” in order to identify the precedent phenomena (hereinafter PF) functioning in them. Political discourse is at the core of contemporary discourse research with the problem of strategies and tactics for manipulating public opinion occupying an im...
The paper focuses on diachronic framing analysis of Russias images in British media discourse. The importance of the research is determined by a need to work out adequate linguistic foundations to counteract information war, generated by some foreign media and aimed at distorting Russias history and eroding its spiritual values. Few scholars have d...
The paper focuses on the media image construal of the Slavs against the backdrop of the Brexit procedure. The objective of the author is to examine the cognitive-discursive mechanisms of representing the West, East, and South Slav national groups in the British media in the context of Britain’s withdrawal. The author employed the cognitive-discursi...
The article focuses on framing law and order as an urban problem. The research investigates the mechanisms of discourse representation of the social ill-being in the local media. Meaning construction is studied in the aspect of frame structures of varying conceptual complexity. Contextual, cognitive-discursive and frame analyses are employed to ide...
This present paper upholds discursive aspects of image construal in British news media. The term negative image construal is introduced within the framework of World Modelling Theory, developed by the author to explore discourse in terms of representational structures. The objective is to reveal news content that contributes to negative image const...
The article focuses on cognitive-discursive aspects of framing a panorama of urban life in the media and presents a part of the results within a broader project, dedicated to media representations of social problems in twin cities. Corpus-assisted approach, discourse analysis and framing analysis are employed to find out mechanisms of meaning const...
The chapter focuses on the phenomenon of information-psychological war in the British mass media. The analysis involves contexts from Internet newspapers
and news sites, united by information war theme. The aim of the author is to reconstruct the fragment of media reality of information-psychological war and establish its parameters. The term “disc...
The paper focuses on theoretical and methodological aspects of the development of one of the latest trends in Russian discourse studies – linguistics of information-psychological war. The analysis involves publications, retrieved from Russian electronic library (“Elibrary”) under a thematic subject heading "Linguistics" and "Mass communication", al...
The article is dedicated to world-modelling in commercial advertising. The author draws on European and Russian cognitive-discursive theories, which emphasize the importance of studying discourse in terms of mental representations and sets out the basics of World Modelling Theory. The named theory is used in the paper as a framework for understandi...
The author focuses on discursive mechanisms of negative image construal in British media. It is proved that discourse-world of information war serves a reference space against which negative country image of Russia stands out.
The authors focus on the study of information war as multidimensional phenomenon that comprises factors of technical, economic, psychological, axiological, cultural and linguistic nature. It is argued that cognitive-discursive modeling can be effectively applied for the research of information war.
The article upholds the necessity of developing World-Modelling Theory, that analyzes discourse in terms of representational structures. It tackles the problem of selective representation of reality in discourse, influenced by the objectives of communication in the interests of symbolic elites, having access to controlling the information. The main...