Pragmatics of the Choice of Quantifier Pronouns to Indicate the Indefinite-Plural Subject of Authorization in a Media Text

Aim. The purpose  of the paper is to identify the functional and pragmatic potential of the quantification variation of pronominal lexemes for designating an indefinite-plural authorizing subject in a media text. Methodology. Authorization structures with the pronominal designation  of an indefinite-plural subject-authorizer are compared  and analyzed based  on the Russian-language  texts of the Belarusian newspapers “SB. Belarus’ Today” and “BelGazeta”. The research utlizes the following methods: descriptive, contextual, pragmatic interpretation, linguistic experiment.

Results. The functional and pragmatic specialization of pronominal means is determined in the course of the research work as koe-kto, kto-to, nekotorye, mnogie, vse in the implementation of “they”-authorization strategies in the Russian-language  media text of the Belarusian print media.  The interconnection of the author’s choice of the pronominal lexeme with the communicative strategies and epistemic attitudes of the journalist is revealed.  It is shown that various authorization switches  are actively used by authors to organize and represent polemical media discourse.

Research  implications. The results  of the study make it possible  to expand the understanding of the pragmatics of language  resources  in their media discourse  projection,  as well as to make a certain contribution to the development of pragmalinguistics and pragmatics of the media text that can be used in the development of active grammars of the Russian language and the development of the content of educational courses  in the field of media linguistics.

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