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Two Images of Russia in the British Political Mass Media Discourse of 1991 – 1993 and 2013 – 2019: Pragmastylistic Aspect

Natalya B. Boeva-Omelechko 1, Ksenia P. Posternyak 1, Marina R. Zheltukhina 2 * , Elena B. Ponomarenko 3, Elena V. Talybina 3, Alexander K. Kalliopin 4, Maria N. Ovsyannikova 4
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1 Department Institute of Philology, Journalism and Cross-cultural Communication, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, RUSSIA2 Institute of Foreign Languages, Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University, Volgograd, RUSSIA3 Faculty of Philology, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, RUSSIA4 Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow, RUSSIA* Corresponding Author
Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 9(4), October 2019, e201926, https://doi.org/10.29333/ojcmt/5952
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The paper considers political mass media discourse as a persuasive dialogue in which a journalist makes his interlocutors accept a certain point of view. The desired mental reaction on the part of interlocutors can only be achieved through careful choice of ways of persuasion and especially linguistic means often influencing effectively the emotional sphere. The persuasion can be subject to ideological aims thus representing a definite object as positive or negative. The paper claims that such object as the image of state can have opposite assessment in different periods of time and focuses on linguistic means of persuasion aimed at the creation of two contrasting images of Russia in the British mass media discourse of 1991 – 1993 and 2013 – 2019.
Keywords: dialogue, political mass media discourse, positive persuasion, negative persuasion, image of state, contrast, linguistic means

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Boeva-Omelechko, N. B., Posternyak, K. P., Zheltukhina, M. R., Ponomarenko, E. B., Talybina, E. V., Kalliopin, A. K., & Ovsyannikova, M. N. (2019). Two Images of Russia in the British Political Mass Media Discourse of 1991 – 1993 and 2013 – 2019: Pragmastylistic Aspect. Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 9(4), e201926. https://doi.org/10.29333/ojcmt/5952

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