Abstract
Being part of the culture, language is closely connected with changes in society and therefore, reflects them. According to Teun A. van Dijk, people are affected by the news they read or watch, and at the same time, acquire and renew their knowledge of the world (van Dijk, 2013). This paper describes the changes the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown introduced into Georgian society and the Georgian language using the example of the relevant material from Georgian online newspapers. The relevance for the study material is analysed from the point of view of critical discourse analysis. (Fairclough, 2013). Fairclough suggests a socially-oriented, three-dimensional model for the study of the social-linguistic problems of critical discourse, which corresponds to the three interrelated levels of both the discourse and the act of communication. These are as follows: 1) The object of analysis (text, the specifics of its formal expression, which in this article will be studied by the descriptive method); 2) Issues of text interpretation that describe the relationships between text and interaction and rely on the interpretation of facts and 3) A sociocultural practice that involves explaining discourse specifics, social conditioning, and social effects made by certain facts. Based on CDA theory, 250 examples relating to the COVID pandemic were selected and analysed. The results of the analysis reveal the linguistic markers that describe the changes related to the COVID pandemic at the lexical, syntactic, semantic, and social levels.
Presenters
Manana RusieshviliProfessor, Head of the Department , English Philology, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Rusudan Dolidze
Tbilisi State University
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Communications and Linguistic Studies
KEYWORDS
CDA, Communication, Pandemic, Linguistics, Press Language
