What do Russians dream about? Functioning of lexemes “to dream”, “dream”, “dreaming” in modern media text (based on publications of the information portal “Lenta.ru”)


https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-10-101-116

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Abstract

The article analyzes the syntagmatic connections of the words “to dream”, “dream”, “dreaming” based on the materials of the news portal “Lenta. ru”. The phrases found in the corpus of texts under consideration (which comprised more than three author’s sheets) with those words represent the semantic core of the concept “dream” and the corresponding fragment of the journalistic picture of the world – to the extent that this fragment was presented in the publications of 2019–2021 of the media selected for research. The journalistic picture of the world is understood by the author of the article as a kind of functional-style picture of the world, i.e. as a communicatively conditioned version of the linguistic picture of the world, which, fixing the specifics in the life of the people, stores information about the world and is “a vivid reflection of the character and worldview of the people” [Bulygina, Shmelev 1997, p. 481]. The journalistic picture of the world created by the mass media influences the conceptual picture of the world of their addressees, including the semantic content and hierarchy of culturally significant concepts. Thus, studying the syntagmatic connections of the words “to dream”, “dream”, “dreaming” in the publications of “Lenta. ru”, we identify modern ideas about the semantic core of the concept “dream”, which are fixed in the journalistic picture of the world of the media under consideration and broadcast to the audience of the publication. 


About the Author

O. M. Afanas’eva
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation

Ol’ga M. Afanas’eva - Cand. of Sci. (Philology), associate professor.

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For citation: Afanas’eva O.M. What do Russians dream about? Functioning of lexemes “to dream”, “dream”, “dreaming” in modern media text (based on publications of the information portal “Lenta.ru”). RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2021;(10):101-116. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-10-101-116

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