Narrative strategies of Media discourse: motivating content of TikTok and YouTube visual platforms

The article introduces a previously non-studied category of motivating content in scientific discourse and substantiates its reception by the audience from a practical and functional point of view. Using the example of the representativeness of six TikTok videos (vertical content) and You-Tube (long horizontal content) platforms, the specific features of the audience's reception are considered. Firstly, for the first time in the article, through the prism of various approaches, a stereoscopic picture of the phenomenon under study is formed, namely: the composition of the videos, the reception of the viewer. It is also proved that their structure is based on the actualization of the narrative archetypes of fairy tales considered by V.Y. Propp. Secondly, the motivating content defines the sequence of narrative elements and highlights the key features of the syntagmatic plot unity. Thirdly, the author defines the means of artistic expression functioning in the narrators' speech, tropes and constructions that are grammatically unrelated to the members of sentences and affect the viewer's reception. The author also defines the functional feature of motivating content, which consists in a psychological and therapeutic function. As a research method, the author revives the theoretical textbook postulates of the fairy tale narrative, based on the decomposition of material to identify narrative matrices. The novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time the significant role of motivating content in the media space is substantiated, and the motivating content itself is analyzed as a separate formal and meaningful type of content, the originality of which is determined by literary-narrative, psychological components. In conclusion, the study identifies the main features of building motivating content on the You-Tube horizontal long videos media platform and TikTok short vertical videos service.

narrative, motivating content, viewer's reception, narrator, media narrative, media discourse, magical fairy tale, fairytale narrative, media content, media space