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The person as a modus subject of an explanatory construction in the media language

https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2022-8-46-53

Abstract

The article analyzes Russian explanatory sentences, understood as a semantic type characterized by a combination of dictum and modus propositions. Each of them has a number of constructive embodiments, the technique of their connection varies, which generally determines a significant range of explanatory constructions – from a simple sentence (with and without introductory words) to a complex one – complex and non-union. Observations are being made on the language of the Russian media. The object of attention is the position of the modus subject. It is revealed that it is replaced in media texts not only by designations of persons (pronouns or personal nouns), which is trivial, but also by three types of non-personal nouns – the names of media institutions, power structures and social institutions. Such facts, illustrated by examples from the media texts of a number of publications (Kommersant, Izvestia, Fontanka.ru, Ogonyok, etc.), indicate that the explanatory construction in media speech opens up for stylistics, in particular, for regular action of metonymy (author / editorial board, authority / its locus, etc.). This circumstance is interpreted against the background of general judgments about the gender of metonymy and metonymic thinking in the modern media sphere.

About the Author

T. V. Shmeleva
Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University
Russian Federation

Tatyana V. Shmeleva, Dr. of Sci. (Philology), professor

bld. 41, Bol’shaya Sankt-Peterburgskaya St., Velikii Novgorod, 173014



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Shmeleva T.V. The person as a modus subject of an explanatory construction in the media language. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2022;(8-1):46-53. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2022-8-46-53

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