Conversations with readers and authors. Seminar 3

The Russian Journal of Linguistics is organizing a series of webinars involving authors and readers, to promote an exchange of views on the topics of the articles presented in recent issue/s.

Seminar 3. Emotionalisation of Media Discourse

We invite our readers to discuss the publications in the Special Issue of the Russian Journal of Linguistics on this topic.

SPEAKERS:

1. Franco ZAPPETTINI, Douglas M. PONTON and Tatiana LARINA
   Emotionalisation of contemporary media discourse: A research agenda
   25 (3) 586–610
2. Barbara DANCYGIER
   Narrativised simile and emotional responses to Brexit
   25 (3) 663–684
3. Andreas MUSOLFF
   Hyperbole and emotionalisation: Escalation of pragmatic effects of proverb and metaphor in the “Brexit” debate
   25 (3) 628–644
4. Olga A. SOLOPOVA and Svetlana L. KUSHNERUK
   War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse
   25 (3) 723–745

DISCUSSANTS:

• Franco ZAPPETTINI (University of Liverpool, UK)
• Douglas M. PONTON (Catania University, Italy)

The webinar will take place in Teams on 27 October 2021, at 4–5:30 pm London GMT (8:00–9:30 am in Vancouver; 5:00–6:30 pm Bratislava, Madrid, Rome, Warsaw; 6:00–7:30 pm Moscow).

Registration: forms.gle.

Feel free to invite your colleagues and students.