CONSTRUCTION OF THOUGHTS IN THE HEADLINES OF SISTER-CITIES’ MASS MEDIA (ON THE BASIS OF CHELYABINSK REGION AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NEWS SITES)

Abstract

The article reveals the problem of the construction of thoughts in the headlines of mass media covering the news of Chelyabinsk region and Nottinghamshire. These cities were proclaimed to be sister-cities in 2000 as they have very close economic and cultural connections. On the basis of news published in January of 2021, the article reveals general and special features of headlines with respect to their cognitive and linguocultural peculiarities. The research is based on the theory of conceptual integration elaborated by G. Fauconnier and M. Turner. The theory presupposes the existence of mental spaces and their interaction with each other which leads to the formation of new thoughts in the human brain. Moreover, the article studies lexical and grammatical means which stipulate the reproduction of the decoded message in the news headlines and analyses the processes of reconstruction of the sentence meaning. The conducted research has shown that macrostructure of headlines in the media discourse of both regions is very similar, as well as the problems they cover. However, the content is unique and dictated by linguocultural peculiarities. The cognitive structure has also some similarities as not all information is expressed directly but exists only subconsciously in both linguocultures.