卷 29, 编号 3 (2025)

The media plays a pivotal role in shaping public perceptions, often contributing to the reinforcement of stereotypes and the dissemination of misinformation about people with mental disabilities. This article aims to reveal how individuals with mental disabilities have been linguistically and discursively constructed by Indonesian online news media over a ten-year period, from 2011 to 2020. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the study integrates corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) and van Leeuwen’s social actor network framework (van Leeuwen 2008), alongside news media models of disability drawn from Disability Studies. The findings reveal a dominant medicalised framing, portraying people with mental disabilities as patients or sufferers, and also a recurring tendency to link them to crime in sensationalised narratives. These representations are linguistically realised through functionalisations , frequent collocates related to medical terms, and passivation that backgrounds agency, and discursively sustained through role allocations that depict them predominantly as passive patients or as active perpetrators. These portrayals reinforce harmful stereotypes, emphasising danger and deviance, while underrepresenting perspectives that highlight discrimination, stigma, or structural barriers. The analysis suggests that this media coverage is likely to be shaped by commercial imperatives and news values that prioritise profit over progressive reporting. Consequently, narratives aligned with civil rights or social models of disability are marginalised. The persistence of these portrayals contributes to public stigma, limits access to support, and discourages help-seeking behaviour among individuals with mental disorders. The article advocates for more balanced journalism that amplifies real lived experiences, systemic issues, and recovery stories to promote inclusive and equitable representations of mental health in the media.

Studying the role of linguistic features in creating bonds between speakers that go beyond simply conveying thoughts helps to highlight how language users express their evaluations and guide others’ interpretations. This study focuses on attitude and engagement markers in academic spoken English. It aims to determine whether native and non-native speakers of English differ in their use of attitude and engagement markers across academic fields, levels of interactivity, gender, and academic roles. Data were drawn from the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) and analysed using Hyland’s (2005) taxonomy. The results of the UNIANOVA inferential statistics indicated that the use of these rhetorical markers was conditioned not only by discipline or academic division, but also by level of interactivity, gender, academic role and cultural background. In addition, the results supported the idea that native speakers’ research practices within the discourse community influenced the frequency patterns of attitude and engagement markers in their discourse, and that non-native speakers needed to be made aware of adhering to disciplinary standards of discourse. They showed the impact of cultural background as well as situational factors and interpersonal relationships on communication styles and demonstrated that linguistic choices reflect cultural norms and expectations, which is crucial for understanding communication in multicultural academic environments. This study linguistically provides valuable insights into the complexities of language use in academic contexts, highlighting the social and interactive dimensions of communication. It also suggests that awareness of these rhetorical features could help speakers establish within the norms of the discourse community.

The terminology used in specialized areas of study is an essential part of communication among people active in those fields. However, variations in terminology across languages and cultures can hinder communication. This paper aims to outline the potential of using image schema clusters in analyzing (Serbian/English) sports terminology. The image schemas of FORCE <F>, PATH <P>, LINK <L>, and BALANCE <B>, their scalar values, and their corresponding specifiers (<end path>, <cycle>, <up>, etc.) were used to annotate and analyze a group of 140 Serbian language sports terms. An important part of the annotation process was the parsing of the event/movement to determine the number of individual segments included in the performance of each and ascribing to it specific schemas, their level of scalarity, and the appropriate specifiers. The focus was on the dynamic mental simulations of movement in sports, which are described as dynamic events that depict the athlete’s body in motion through time and space. The analysis addressed the issue of overcoming non-literal descriptions in sports terminology in favor of conveying the abstract nature of the underlying structures, thus rendering them universal. The findings indicate that the proposed image schema identification protocol can be used to identify the image schema clusters and their scalar values that determine the terms in the corpus. The study contributes to the achievement of transparency and clarity in sports terminology by precisely determining and formulating the meaning of concepts related to specific sports terms, which is essential for unimpeded communication in this area.

Linguistic landscape remains an important semiotic resource for tracking socio-political changes and the shifting power dynamics they entail, particularly in contexts marked by superdiversity. As the largest urban center in Russia, Moscow is a multilingual and multicultural city shaped by its unique historical, political, and socio-economic context. However, despite the city’s central role in understanding the complexities of post-Soviet Russia, research on its linguistic landscape remains limited, particularly in relation to its stratification amidst monolingual policies, the increasing visibility of English, and active migration patterns in recent decades. This study aims to analyse how the layered linguistic landscape of Moscow reflects patterns of multilingualism, language commodification, and the selective visibility of minority languages. A dataset of 513 photos was compiled between 2022 and 2024. It was analyzed combining ethnographic and quantitative approaches, identifying three key layers in Moscow’s linguistic landscape. The analysis reveals a selective and transient accommodation of multilingualism in official policies, which, while allowing multilingualism in some contexts, largely reaffirms Russian as dominant. While semiotic diversity in bottom-up signage presents a grassroots counterpoint to official practices, Central Asian languages have quite limited visibility in top-down signage. Findings highlight the need for a more inclusive linguistic landscape that reflects the city’s diverse population, as well as stable top-down policies to sustain the city’s global aspirations.

The study addresses the issue of the linguistic analysis of artistic discourse in the aesthetic projection of idiodiscursive language modelling, where artistic discourse is understood as a particular aesthetic and ethno-cultural worldview formed through the intellectual and creative interaction between the artist (author) and the recipient (reader). The purpose of this work is to clarify the dimensions of the linguistic aesthetic model of the author's set of techniques and tools based on the linguistic discursive practices of the contemporary Chinese literature (the turn of the XX-XXI centuries). The study analyses six popular works of prose in the form of a lengthy novels by Mo Yan, Liu Zhenyun, Yu Hua, Jia Pingwa, Wang Anyi and Moxiang Tongxiu, comprising a total of about three million hieroglyphs. The study employs a comprehensive methodology underpinned by the concepts of integral linguistics, text linguistics, pragmatics, cognitive and suggestive linguistics, which consequently engenders an interdisciplinary approach. The paper sets out to analyse the influence of ethnocultural features on the formation of a nationally oriented artistic discourse. The concept of national culture is identified through the realms of the linguistic picture of the world, which act as a cultural code or cultural marker. The author’s linguistic personality is regarded as a modelling projection of the national language and ethnocultural features. The results of the study demonstrate that the parameters of the linguoesthetic model of the author’s linguistic consciousness include: the individual author’s linguistic features, which are subjective and syntagmatic in nature; the ethnonational and sociocultural-cognitive author’s attitudes; the use of intermediate tools of cognitive-pragmatic psychology to attract multidimensional matrix attention, thereby helping to obtain aesthetic perception from fictitious interaction with the artistic world; the emotive density at points of structural tension; the linguoesthetic discursive markers; the integration of cultural, historical and ethnonational realities. The proposed dimensions require further expansion and detail, but in this form, they allow us to apply them in the methodology of analyzing artistic discourse on the issue of identifying ideodiscursive and linguoesthetic features in the use of writing practices.