Open AccessTHE USE OF "URBAN" AND "RURAL" INTERRELATION IN AMERICAN MEDIA DISCOURSE IN METONYMS
Author(s) -
Bekirova Aynura Nizami
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of innovative technologies in social science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2544-9435
pISSN - 2544-9338
DOI - 10.31435/rsglobal_ijitss/30122021/7737
Subject(s) - metonymy , cognitive semantics , cognitive linguistics , linguistics , sociology , newspaper , semantics (computer science) , media linguistics , conceptual metaphor , cognition , applied linguistics , psychology , computer science , quantitative linguistics , metaphor , philosophy , media studies , neuroscience , programming language
This article is devoted to the study of the metonymic expressions “urban” and “rural” in the American media discourse. In this article, we tried to study metonymy within the framework of the modern scientific paradigm of cognitive linguistics. It is known that in cognitive linguistics there are three approaches to metonymy, which consider metonymy as a conceptual phenomenon, a fundamental method of understanding reality and one of the mechanisms of cognitive modeling: 1) the theory of prototypes and idealized cognitive models; 2) the theory of frame semantics; 3) the theory of conceptual semantics. In studying metonymy on the basis of these theories, the views of linguists such as J. Lakoff, M. Johnson, Z. Kövecses, YV Paducheva were referred to. The article cites and explores newspaper examples to illustrate the metonyms “urban” and “rural” in American media discourse.