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Speaker’s Empathy as a Linguistic Problem (using the example of French media discourse)
- Authors: Tunitskaya E.L.1
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- Russian foreign trade academy (Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation)
- Issue: No 2(896) (2025)
- Pages: 103-110
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2542-2197/article/view/284010
- ID: 284010
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Abstract
The article analyzes the use of the term “speaker’s empathy” in modern Russian and foreign linguistics. The analysis aims to clarify the very understanding of this term, to prove its scientific relevance for a pragmatic description and to show the mechanism of the speaker’s empathy in French discourse, that is, to identify its linguistic markers. The study was carried out on the material of a media discourse: a number of French Internet messages about one event (the assassination attempt on Donald Trump). The analysis is based on the method of structural and semantic comparison of the propositions prevailing in the studied material. This made it possible not only to clarify the understanding of this term in linguistics, but also to identify the linguistic markers of the analyzed phenomenon in French media discourse, as well as to show the role of a broad context in its implementation.
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Elena Leonidovna Tunitskaya
Russian foreign trade academy (Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation)
Author for correspondence.
Email: e-tunia@yandex.ru
Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor, Professor at the Department of Roman-Germanic languages
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