Metadata (abstracts and keywords) for the articles in the journal
I. N. Martynova PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE LEXICO-SEMANTIC FIELD “21st CENTURY CHINA” // I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. 2021. № 3(112). p. 53-59
Author(s):
I. N. Martynova
Index of UDK:
070:811.111`373(510)"20"
Index of DOI:
0.37972/chgpu.2021.112.3.008
Name of article:
PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE LEXICO-SEMANTIC FIELD “21st CENTURY CHINA”
Keywords:
modern China, American media, concept, lexico-semantic field, microfield
Abstracts:
Nowadays mass media including electronic resources play a significant role in creating popular opinion on various issues. It stands true for political questions such as proving information about countries. Analysis of lexical units and their choice to describe an image of a country can be done through the use of the conceptual scientific approach and the theory of lexico-semantic fields.
The author of the article analyzes how China was represented in American newspapers and magazines in the second decade of the 21st century. Relations between two largest economies in the world are of a great importance to all other countries. Besides, China is a special political and trade partner of Russia, and it makes everything connected with this country particularly significant.
This study is the second part of the research on this topic that focuses on the periphery elements of the lexico-semantic field “21st century China”. The analysis showed that these are the following microfields: “China is a mechanism”, “China is a problem”, “Nature”, “Health” and “China is a relative”. The article highlights the lexemes comprising these microfields and discusses the possible meanings and ideas expressed by them.
The contact details of authors:
Мартынова Ирина Николаевна – кандидат педагогических наук, доцент кафедры английской филологии и переводоведения Чувашского государственного педагогического университета им. И. Я. Яковлева, г. Чебоксары, Россия; e-mail: irinamartynova08@mail.ru
