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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">27477</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-2021-25-3-645-662</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The UK as victim and hero in the Sun’s coverage of the Brexit ‘humiliation’</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Великобритания как жертва и герой в освещении Брексита газетой “Sun”</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7049-4454</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Zappettini</surname><given-names>Franco</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Заппеттини</surname><given-names>Франко</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Research in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, UK. His research focuses on the textual/discursive analysis of different forms of political and organisational communication including mediated forms of populism, such as tabloid populism and Euroscepticism in the British press. He has published internationally in peer-reviewed journals and book series. His latest publication is the monograph Brexit: A Critical Discursive Analysis forthcoming for Palgrave MacMillan</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>имеет степень доктора, преподает в Ливерпульском университете, Великобритания, руководит аспирантскими программами в области коммуникации и СМИ. Его исследования сосредоточены на текстуальном/дискурсивном анализе различных форм политической коммуникации, включая опосредованные формы популизма, такие как таблоидный популизм и евроскептицизм в британской прессе. Он публикует свои исследования в рецензируемых международных журналах и монографиях. Его последняя публикация - монография Brexit: A Critical Discursive Analysis (PalgraveMacMillan).</p></bio><email>franco.zappettini@liverpool.ac.uk</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Liverpool</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Ливерпульский университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-09-24" publication-format="electronic"><day>24</day><month>09</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>25</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Emotionalisation of Media Discourse</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Emotionalisation of Media Discourse</issue-title><fpage>645</fpage><lpage>662</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-09-24"><day>24</day><month>09</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Zappettini F.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Заппеттини Ф.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2021, Zappettini F.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Zappettini F.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Заппеттини Ф.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Zappettini F.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/27477">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/27477</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">This paper discusses how emotions were mobilised by the British tabloid press as discursive strategies of persuasion during the public debate on the implementation of Brexit. Using the case study of the Sun’s coverage of the alleged UK’s ‘humiliation’ at the Salzburg meeting (2018) during the Brexit negotiations, the analysis addresses the questions of how and through which linguistic means actors and events were framed discursively in such an article. The findings suggest that The Sun elicited emotions of fear, frustration, pride, and freedom to frame Brexit along a long-established narrative of domination and national heroism. The discourse was also sustained by a discursive prosody in keeping with a satirical genre and a populist register that have often characterised the British tabloid press. In particular the linguistic analysis has shown how antagonistic representations of the UK and the EU were driven by an allegory of ‘incompetent’ gangsterism and morally justified resistance. Emotionalisation in the article was thus aimed both at ridiculing the EU and at representing it as a criminal organisation. Such framing was instrumental in pushing the newspaper agenda as much as in legitimising and institutionalising ‘harder’ forms of Brexit with the tabloid’s readership. Approaching journalist discourse at the intersection of affective, stylistic, and political dimensions of communication, this paper extends the body of literature on the instrumental use of emotive arguments and populist narratives and on the wider historical role of tabloid journalism in representing political relations. between the UK and the EU.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Статья посвящена роли эмоций в дискурсивных стратегиях убеждения. В ней рассматривается, как во время публичных дебатов по вопросу Брексита британская таблоидная пресса использовала эмоции для продвижения данной идеи. На примере освещения газетой “Sun” «унижения» Великобритании на переговорах по Брекситу в Зальцбурге (2018) исследуется, как и с помощью каких языковых средств были дискурсивно оформлены акторы и описываемые события. Полученные данные свидетельствуют о том, что газета “Sun” вызывала у читателей эмоции страха и разочарования наряду с чувством гордости и свободы, чтобы связать Брексит с давно устоявшимся нарративом доминирования и национального героизма. Дискурс также подкреплялся дискурсивной просодией в сочетании с сатирическим жанром и популистским регистром, которые часто характеризуют британскую бульварную прессу. В частности, лингвистический анализ показал, как антагонистические образы Великобритании и ЕС подкреплялись аллегорией «некомпетентного» гангстеризма и морально оправданным сопротивлением. Таким образом, эмоционализация была нацелена как на высмеивание ЕС, так и на изображение ЕС как преступной организации, что сыграло важную роль в продвижении идеи Брексита среди читателей таблоида, а также легитимации и институционализации его более жестких форм. Рассматривая журналистский дискурс с учетом эмоционального, стилистического и политического аспектов коммуникации, данное исследование расширяет представление об использовании эмоциональных аргументов и популистских нарративов, а также подчеркивает роль бульварной журналистики в представлении политических отношений между Великобританией и ЕС.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Brexit</kwd><kwd>political communication</kwd><kwd>media linguistics</kwd><kwd>tabloid journalism</kwd><kwd>Critical Discourse Analysis</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Брексит</kwd><kwd>политическая коммуникация</kwd><kwd>медиалингвистика</kwd><kwd>бульварная журналистика</kwd><kwd>эмоциолнализация</kwd><kwd>критический дискурс-анализ</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Alba-Juez Laura &amp; Tatiana Larina. 2018. Language and Emotion: Discourse-Pragmatic Perspectives. 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