АКТУАЛИЗАЦИЯ КОНЦЕПТОВ В МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫХ АЛЬТЕРНАТИВНЫХ МЕДИА

Политическая лингвистика. 2020. № 5. С. 72–79.

Dmitriev O. A.

The article presents the results of a study of the interpretation of the worldview by international alternative media. It is underlined that they do not trust the information broadcast by the mainstream media. The aim of the study is to reveal the concepts and semantic units used by RT and Al Jazeera International in the coverage of most important global issues, including those of the COVID-19 pandemic. Special attention is paid to the interpretation of the notions “concept” and “worldview” by media scholars and professionals. The author’s approach is based mostly on the investigations of Russian linguists - in the Western scholarly tradition, the worldview has not been studied by a separate linguistic theory; it is the object of investigation of various branches of science alongside other issues. The author makes a conclusion that the concepts and the worldview formed with their help constitute a unity of knowledge and ideas about the world described by mass media before the COVID-19 pandemic and are actualized in the coverage of the current events. However, in the first half of 2020, the habitual concepts started to change due to the coronavirus pandemic. This transformation was better seen not in the mainstream media but on the example of the resources that won worldwide popularity due to the non - standard approach to international news presentation. The usual concepts started to get shades of meaning that had not been used in international news broadcasts. The results of the study are presented in the form of schemes that highlight the key moments of the investigation undertaken by the author of the article. This attempt at concept classification allows the researcher to systematize the description of alternative media.

Keywords: альтернативные медиа, средства массовой информации