Chemeteva Yu.V. Legal Media Discourse As a Hybrid Phenomenon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.1.9
Yuliya V. Chemeteva
Postgraduate Student, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Translation Theory and Practice and Linguistics, Volgograd State University
Prosp. Universitetsky, 100, 400062 Volgograd, Russia
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Abstract. The paper describes legal media discourse, which is a hybrid discourse formation whose preconstructs are legal discourse and media discourse. The study was conducted using general scientific methods: induction, generalization, analysis, synthesis, description; and specialized linguistic methods: continuous sampling method, discourse analysis. The texts of legal media discourse presented on the official websites of the English-language media platforms such as The Guardian, BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times, Washington Monthly, etc. form the empirical basis of the study. Legal discourse and media discourse are institutional discourses whose interaction results in forming an independent hybrid. The article provides the analysis of legal media discourse using the pattern of the institutional discourse description proposed by V.I. Karasik, which consists of the following criteria: typical participants, chronotope, goals, values, strategies, genres, precedent texts, and discursive formulas. The characteristics of the discursive hybrid under study are determined by referring to the preconstruct discourses features identified at the present time. The description of legal media discourse as a specific sphere of the intersection of law and media is viewed as not a mechanical sum of the characteristics of legal discourse and media discourse, but their synthesis which accounts for the independent nature of the hybrid discursive formation.
Key words: legal media discourse, legal discourse, media discourse, hybrid discourse, discourse strategies, genres of discourse, discursive formulas.
Citation. Chemeteva Yu.V. Legal Media Discourse As a Hybrid Phenomenon. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2. Yazykoznanie [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. Linguistics], 2022, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 110-118. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.1.9
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