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Title: Modality and intentionality of media discourse
Vol. 5, 2019, pp. 20-30.
DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2019.v05.002
Author: Tatiana Karpilovitch
About the author: Prof. Dr. Tatiana P. Karpilovitch is the Head of the Department of Theory and Practice of the English Language at the School of Translation and Interpreting, Minsk State Linguistic University. She teaches English Stylistics, Theory of Intercultural Communication, she also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate student research projects. She was an IREX scholar at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, Pennsylvania University in 1995-1996. Her research interests include discourse linguistics, cognitive linguistics, media and cultural studies, contrastive linguistics. She is the author of the book «Modelirovanie Smyslovoi Compressii Teksta: Kognitivno-Diskursivny Podhod» (Modeling of Text Semantic Compression: a Cognitive-Discursive Approach), Minsk, 2003; editor-in-chief and one of the authors of the book «Media Text i Kultura» (Media Text and Culture), Minsk, 2015. She coordinated a number of international conferences which were held at Minsk State Linguistic University: «Young Scientists in Innovative Research», «Contrastive Studies of Languages and Cultures». She has presented papers at conferences in Bulgaria, Poland, Lithuania, Russia on issues of discourse linguistics, contrastive linguistics, methods of teaching languages.
Citation (APA style): Karpilovitch, Т. (2019). Modality and intentionality of media discourse. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 5, 20-30. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2019.v05.002
Link: https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2019/vol5/SILC_2019_Vol.%205_020-030_11.pdf
Abstract: The paper investigates the role of lexical and grammatical means of modality in realising intentionality of media discourse. The discourse category of intentionality is understood as the main communicative purpose of a discourse genre which determines its overall structure, the author’s communicative strategies and the linguistic means for their representation. The research is based on material of problem feature articles excerpted from the American press. The paper focuses on the pragmatic analysis of language units expressing propositional modality (possibility, necessity) and illocutionary modality (imperatives and interrogatives) used in different structural parts of a problem feature article. The results demonstrate a different potential of modal utterances with these meanings to express the author’s global intention – suggesting ways of solving the problem raised in the article. A special procedure has been worked out to prove the connection between the modal utterance and the intentionality of the media discourse genre under study.
Keywords: modality, intentionality, media discourse, discourse genre, problem feature articles.
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