Linguistic explication of the frame of refusal in some English media texts in the business discourse in the aspect of their translation into Russian

the presented article explicates the frame of refusal in some media texts in English with the identification of the frame slots as follows: motive, action, agent, object, expectation, involvement of agents, taking into account the value aspect, context and complex geopolitical situation. The corpus analysis of texts in English was carried out to obtain and analyze the marked array of data for the purpose of their comparison, convergence analysis of media texts with the topicality ‘business’ for the availability of the peculiarities of expressing refusals, the impact of the refusal patterns on business communication and communicators in terms of changing intents. The issue of competition of discourses containing the frame of refusal is highlighted. Conclusions are drawn about the semantic scope of the concept of refusal (cancelling) in English. Strategies and tactics of translation of some media texts with the frame of refusal into Russian are proposed. The linguistic explication of the refusal frame was carried out in the focus of lexis and semantics of the English language, authentic speech on the example of a podcast, verbal associations of the native speakers of English. Despite the opinions of some scholars about the possible disappearance of the frame at its explication, the totality of representations in the business discourse about situations called refusal was investigated for the representation of mental and verbal lexical units and their translations into Russian. The task was to explicate the frame of refusal and determine its features in English on the basis of analyzing paradigmatic (uniting language units into groups, classes, categories), syntagmatic (as a set of several words united on the principle of semantic-grammatical-phonetic combinability) and word-formation relations of the lexemes representing the concept of refusal and their derivatives, relations between conversation and social context. Strategies and tactics of translation with the purpose of lowering the aggressiveness and menasiveness of the statement and its reprofiling into a performative with the subsequent communicative action aimed at overcoming the deficits and negative consequences of acts of refusal in the course of intercultural communication with the help of communicative strategies and tactics in business communication in the forms of oral and written speech have been proposed.

frame of refusal, linguistic explication of the frame, media text, business discourse, translation strategy and tactics