Media Linguistics XXI century

апреля 13, 2015

Cambridge (UK), 28-30 March 2015 held the traditional international scientific conference BASEES-2015, organized by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. This is one of the most important events annually gathered at the University of Cambridge scientists from different countries in Europe, Asia, North America and others.

Topics sections reflect the full range of interests of modern researchers of Slavic: "Politics", "History", "Sociology and Geography", "Film/Media", "Languages and linguistics", "Literature and Culture", "Economics" and others.

In the section "Film/Media" Professor Lilia Duskaeva (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) organized a panel discussion “Crossing-out in media text”. In her report "Denial as crossing-out in media texts" L. Duskaeva explained that the act of crossing-out words in a written culture is seen as an act of professional creative process to create a written text. Author crosses during reflective internal dialogue, suggesting to replace the inaccurate term, clear, highlight an important point. But crossing-out in the internal dialogue of the author may not only in its own text (when it appears as a self-revision), but in the text of another. And then crossing-out becomes a manifestation of rejection of words, thoughts, ideas, beliefs about the world of the other. The speaker showed that the need for debate with others is the most important feature of journalistic work, which is reflected in the formation of a special types of texts aimed at debunking false, immoral position of the other. Following this idea, Yulia Konyaeva (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) in her report "The expression of crossing-out intention in the descriptive field of journalistic publication" analyzed the act of crossing-out in the form of communication strategy of trolling. Trolling in understanding of the speaker is a special presentation logic of information that is associated with the expression of doubt on the reliability, truth claims of other. Crossing-out as rethinking the position by the great Russian writer Victor Astafiev was devoted the report of Natalia Tcvetova (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) "Trying of confession" by V. Astafiev: intentionality of copyright text editing".

View of foreign researchers on Russian television was introduced in the section “"Others" in Soviet / Russian Cinema and Television” in the reports "Images and image-making in TASS is authorized to announce" by Jonathan Ludwig (Rice University, USA) and ""Little Britain" goes to East: modalization of ethnic prejudice in Russian television sketch comedy" by Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester, UK).

The conference, bringing together more than 400 scientists from various countries, has shown increasing interest in research Russia and other Slavonic and East European countries in the world.