NEWSPAPER TEXT AND COGNITIVE-DISCURSIVE NARRATION EVENT

The Title of a Literary Text as a Discursive Phenomenon

Modern text linguistics pays serious attention to the significant structural elements of the text, which carry special knowledge. Such structural elements include the title. In this article, the title is considered as a linguistic and cognitive characteristic and a spatially fixed structural element of the text – «frame», which is located around/before/behind the text, focusing on the importanc...

Event as a Discursive Meeting Ground

Word Usage : Newspaper Text versus the Web

This paper explores the differences in words and word usage in two corpora – one derived from newspaper text and the other from the web. A corpus of web pages is compiled from a controlled traversal of the web, producing a topicdiverse collection of 2 billion words of web text1. We compare this Web Corpus with the Gigaword Corpus, a 2 billion word collection of news articles. The Web Corpus is ...

Narration, Visualization and Mind

The paper is analyzing how people in late modern society characterized by detraditionalization, use moving images as a cultural resource for the construction of meaningful subjective world views. As a theoretical concept with several dimensions, “sacralization of the self” (Woodhead & Heelas 2000: 344), is related to media theory. With a critical focus on ‘the self’, as a core aspect in contemp...

Words and Word Usage: Newspaper Text versus the Web

This paper explores the differences in words and word usage in two corpora – one derived from newspaper text and the other from the web. A corpus of web pages is compiled from a controlled traversal of the web, producing a topicdiverse collection of 2 billion words of web text1. We compare this Web Corpus with the Gigaword Corpus, a 2 billion word collection of news articles. The Web Corpus is ...