{"title":"Tendencies of threat techniques utilization in the COVID-19 related discourse in Georgian and English online news reports","authors":"Zeinab Gvarishvili, Nana Mazmishvili","doi":"10.5817/cz.muni.p280-0212-2022-3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the present research is to study and analyze linguistic markers of threat utilized in English and Georgian online daily news (The Guardian and The Georgian Times) concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. The study provides synchronic analysis of specific tendencies of utilization of threat techniques in the two languages. The research methodology implies qualitative and quantitative data analyses as well as corpus-based research aiming at determination of peculiarities of threat utterance and its function in persuasive communicative act and revealing similarities and differences between the two languages by contrasting and comparative methodologies.","PeriodicalId":65030,"journal":{"name":"语言研究","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"语言研究","FirstCategoryId":"1092","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p280-0212-2022-3","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The objective of the present research is to study and analyze linguistic markers of threat utilized in English and Georgian online daily news (The Guardian and The Georgian Times) concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. The study provides synchronic analysis of specific tendencies of utilization of threat techniques in the two languages. The research methodology implies qualitative and quantitative data analyses as well as corpus-based research aiming at determination of peculiarities of threat utterance and its function in persuasive communicative act and revealing similarities and differences between the two languages by contrasting and comparative methodologies.