Dynamics of emotivity in the newspaper style (in articles about COVID-19)

Pervukhina, S.; Rood, E.

The article is devoted to emotionally-colored vocabulary in newspaper articles related to the topic of coronavirus infection. The article defines the goals and objectives of the research, describes the research method, provides examples and explanations and conclusions. The analysis of the emotive vocabulary of the articles is given on the example of two languages: English and Russian. The results of the study indicate the dependence of emotivity on the situation associated with an increase or decrease in the number of patients, on cultural-specific and mental-specific features. The article is devoted to the analysis and identification of the causes and ways of transmitting emotivity in a journalistic text. The aim of the study is to trace the phenomenon of emotivity in the synchronic and diachronic aspects. As a synchronic approach, we considered emotionally-colored vocabulary in the newspaper style-we identified its main features and ways of transmitting it in the text at a certain point in time. The diachronic approach is to study the changes in the selected emotionally colored units over the course of a year. These changes are related to developments during the coronavirus pandemic. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2021.