Verbal event variability media representation

In the journalistic discourse the event is transformed from a fragment of reality into the image, modeled by the author. As the core of information message this image, on the one hand, conveys the key points of what has happened, on the other, it focuses on a particular aspect of the event. The verbal event is the result of the interpretation of the fragment of reality by a subject, having the spatial-temporal coordinates and endowed with the modality of the author. The verbal event is a product of an individual's cognitive performance. It represents the fragment of reality taking into account the values and ideological orientations of the author of the media text. In the newspaper text an event loses a sign of continuity; it consists of several individual episodes. The variability of the representation of the verbal event structural elements can be observed in the Russian media texts covering the crash of the ship "Bulgaria". In the newspaper discourse this event is interpreted by words that have the semantics of tragedy (tragedy, catastrophe, crash). This perception and understanding of the event becomes fixed in the press and replaces the neutral information about the incident. This leads to the dramatization of the reality, which is represented by the Russian media discourse. The verbal event is not only represented variably, but it represents itself as a set of independent, interconnected "micro events''. Each of them is conditioned by the previous events and determines the following ones. However, their spatial-temporal characteristics, circumstances, participants, evaluations change, and the primary event becomes the starting point for multiple representations to happen. So, representation of a verbal event may be based on both factual information and author's associations and generalizations. Interpretation of the event by multiple subjects is reduced to one similar understanding (in our example incident with the ship is a disaster), but some items of the verbal event are represented variably. In our opinion, it is possible due to the specific of the real event, but the variations in accentuation of its aspects depend on the author's intentions.

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