Lexicographic interpretation of cognitive linguistics terms functioning in Russian media discourse

The article addresses the problem of how linguistic terms function in discourse that is not associated with a scientific context. The aim of this article is to describe the process of the mediatization of cognitive science terms and to present a methodology - determined by this process - for creating a discursive dictionary that reflects a term's usage in a non-professional environment. The research material was drawn from the central and regional newspaper corpora, the media corpus, and the social media corpus of the Russian National Corpus. Using the Russian National Corpus data makes it possible to identify term collocates and thereby establish the most stable shifts in lexical meaning. The specific ways terms function in discourses that are not their native domain are revealed through distributional, definitional, and semiotic-sememic analysis, as well as through metonymic and metaphorical modelling. The article presents the results of an analysis of the term mental'nyy (mental). Semantic-pragmatic interpretation and lexicographic documentation of terminological units uncover the semantic shifts caused by the use of scientific terms in an "alien" discourse. It is shown that lexical meaning transformation is typically based on the development of polysemy. A possible scheme for presenting a term in the compilation of a "Dictionary of Cognitive Terms Based on Russian Media Discourse" is also proposed. The scheme for describing a term in media discourse includes presenting the term in its primary, cognitive meaning; the results of an analysis of context types and communicative-thematic spheres; the results of a distributional analysis of collocates; propositional structures of the term's usage; semantic shifts; synonyms and antonyms (including contextual ones) and quasi-synonyms; and the ways the term is introduced into a context. Each point is accompanied by illustrative examples. The relevance of the issues addressed in the article stems from the need to investigate the currently active process of term mediatization and to apply a cognitive-discursive approach in such research. Its novelty is determined by the scarcity of studies on term mediatiza-tion in general, and on linguistic terms in particular. A new contribution is the concept of a dictionary of cognitive terms in media discourse, which records normative meanings and a term's position within its "own" terminological system, but primarily focuses on the interpretation of cognitive terms in contemporary media discourse. Contribution of the authors: the authors contributed equally to this article. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

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