Colloquialization of Media Discourse and Manipulation with Quantity Cover Image

Колоквиализацията на медийния дискурс и манипулацията с количеството
Colloquialization of Media Discourse and Manipulation with Quantity

Author(s): Silviya Koeva
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”

Summary/Abstract: The paper binds the process of colloquialization of media discourse in Bulgaria with manipulation by Bulgarian popular mass media of its consumers. The examples illustrate how the expressive function of some colloquial lexical units – quantifiers – commit or facilitate manipulation with different meanings of quantity.

  • Issue Year: 10/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 204-226
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Bulgarian