This study is situated within corpus-based discourse analysis and provides a critical discussion on China in the Russian mainstream media RIA Novosti during COVID-19 epidemic. The paper analyzes Novosti’s reports pandemic COVID-19. authors use Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Model to explore representations of epidemic thus uncover attitudes stances social cognition. come conclusion that shows g...

Given a discourse tree for a text as a candidate answer to a compound query, we propose a rule system for valid and invalid occurrence of the query keywords in this tree. To be a valid answer to a query, its keywords need to occur in a chain of elementary discourse unit of this answer so that these units are fully ordered and connected by nucleus – satellite relations. An answer might be invali...