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V. V. Katermina, E. A. Yachenko COVID-19 AS A LINGUISTIC PHENOMENON (BASED ON ENGLISH MASS-MEDIA TEXTS) // I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. 2020. № 3(108). p. 51-58
Author(s):
V. V. Katermina, E. A. Yachenko
Index of UDK:
81.111’373:070
Index of DOI:
10.37972/chgpu.2020.108.3.007
Name of article:
COVID-19 AS A LINGUISTIC PHENOMENON (BASED ON ENGLISH MASS-MEDIA TEXTS)
The article is devoted to the study of COVID-19 as a linguistic phenomenon on the material of The Economist (March-May 2020). The article notes that in the modern world, characterized by critical moments of the civilization plan, the study of the foundations of the formation of society, the role of information technology and new discursive practices of social interaction is of particular importance. The beginning of 2020 was marked by the coronavirus epidemic, which turned into a pandemic. The wide spread of the disease affected not only the functioning of medicine and other social institutions, but also the lexical composition of many languages, in particular English. The article analyzes the structural and semantic plans of the COVID-19 token. This token and its synonyms are introduced into the discourse of the media, which allows us to consider them in the discursive context expressing changes in public consciousness during the pandemic. The article emphasizes that during periods of social stability, the processes of language development proceed gradually, and language changes affect individual parts of the system. At a time of social upheaval, the processes of language development are accelerating, an impression of chaos and instability is created. In accordance with the peculiarities of the situation in society, the psychological attitudes of the masses, their linguistic taste and flair of the language are changing.A comprehensive linguistic analysis of the research material made it possible to establish that the lexeme COVID-19 in the English mass media discourse acquires additional connotations and serves to form an informational picture of the world that reflects the national-cultural characteristics of worldview and the system of axiological relations.
The contact details of authors:
Катермина Вероника Викторовна – доктор филологических наук, профессор кафедры английской филологии Кубанского государственного университета, г. Краснодар, Россия; e-mail: veronika.katermina@yandex.ru
Яченко Екатерина Андреевна – студентка 2 курса кафедры теории и практики перевода Кубанского государственного университета, г. Краснодар, Россия; e-mail: ekaterina.yachenko@mail.ru
