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Peculiarities of Language Representation of the Concept? Englishness and Britishness in the Modern British Media Discourse

Darya M. Kostina, Natalia I. Kostina, Olesia V. Serkina and Marina S. Belozerova
Page: 1111-1115 | Received 21 Sep 2022, Published online: 21 Sep 2022

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Abstract

The aim of the study is to analyze the correlation between the concepts “Englishness” and “Britishness”, peculiarities of their language representation in the modern British media discourse. Methods of the analysis are defined by objectives, a theoretical and practical orientation of the research, character of an analyzed material. The conceptual analysis (structuring and the analysis of the semantic content of concepts for the purpose of their reconstruction on the basis of studying the representative specifics of the corresponding language units); the intralinguistic semantic analysis (identification of the general and national peculiar features in semantics of language units) and etc. In today’s British Society, the concept “Britishness” is a key element in the system of British cultural values but in a number of cases the concepts “Britishness” and Englishness” are identified as similar despite the fact that the population of the UK was and is a heterogeneous structure. The concept “multiculturalism” is represented by the notion “Britishness” which includes the idea of belonging to the British Society, on the one hand and ethno-cultural characteristics of the population of Britain related in a large number of cases to the primordial population of Britain.

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Darya M. Kostina, Natalia I. Kostina, Olesia V. Serkina and Marina S. Belozerova. Peculiarities of Language Representation of the Concept? Englishness and Britishness in the Modern British Media Discourse.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/sscience.2015.1111.1115
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