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Fake discourse in the space of mass media and media linguistic practices [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
The purpose of this study is determined by the importance and necessity of using and active disseminating false, fake reality in the space of media discourse and media linguistic practices to exert a manipulative influence on the audience. The paper shows that as a result of the media-linguistic practices analysis in the space of fake media reality ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Emotionalisation of contemporary media discourse: A research agenda

open access: yesRussian Journal of Linguistics, 2021
This special issue continues the discussion of the role of emotion in discourse (see Russian Journal of Linguistics 2015 (1) and 2018, 22 (1)) which, as testified by the burgeoning body of literature in the field, has become more prominent in different ...
Franco Zappettini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Linguistic Complexity in Professional and Citizen Media [PDF]

open access: yesJournalism Studies, 2017
Structural linguistic characteristics are an important aspect of written communication. Previous research shows that linguistic complexity plays an important role in how people process information. With increasing popularity and readership of citizen journalism, questions of how structurally different this medium is from its professional counterparts ...
Tolochko, Petro, Boomgaarden, Hajo G.
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The UK as victim and hero in the Sun’s coverage of the Brexit ‘humiliation’

open access: yesRussian Journal of Linguistics, 2021
This paper discusses how emotions were mobilised by the British tabloid press as discursive strategies of persuasion during the public debate on the implementation of Brexit. Using the case study of the Suns coverage of the alleged UKs humiliation at the
Franco Zappettini
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistics and the New Media

open access: yes, 2014
This chapter explores the question how linguistics has reacted to the new media and how our field of study has turned them into an object of study. In the introduction we first explain what linguists explore in general and how they can study language use within the new media, using the methodological possibilities for linguistics that the digital ...
Lorenza Mondada,, Miriam A. Locher
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Social media and English language writing performances of a Ghanaian ESL class: The nexus

open access: yesCogent Education, 2023
The nexus among social media usage and the English language writing performances of a Ghanaian English as Second Language (ESL) class was investigated in this enquiry.
Ramos Asafo-Adjei   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

UK policy on social networking sites and online health: From informed patient to informed consumer?

open access: yesDigital Health, 2015
Background Social networking sites offer new opportunities for communication between and amongst health care professionals, patients and members of the public.
Daniel Hunt   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploiting Prosody for Syntactic Analysis in Automatic Speech Understanding

open access: yesJournal of Language Modelling, 2012
The relation between syntax and prosody is evident, even if the prosodic structure cannot be directly mapped to the syntactic one and vice versa. Syntax-to-prosody mapping is widely used in text-tospeech applications, but prosody-to-syntax mapping is ...
György Szaszák, András Beke
doaj   +1 more source

Lesion Location and Functional Connections Reveal Cognitive Impairment Networks in Multiple Sclerosis

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Cognitive impairment, fatigue, and depression are common in multiple sclerosis (MS), potentially due to disruption of regional functional connectivity caused by white matter (WM) lesions. We explored whether WM lesions functionally connected to specific brain regions contribute to these MS‐related manifestations.
Alessandro Franceschini   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Argument Strength is in the Eye of the Beholder: Audience Effects in Persuasion

open access: yes, 2017
Americans spend about a third of their time online, with many participating in online conversations on social and political issues. We hypothesize that social media arguments on such issues may be more engaging and persuasive than traditional media ...
Anand, Pranav   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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