FRAME ANALYSIS OF PROTESTATION COGNITIVE SCRIPT ON THE BASIS OF LE FIGARO (PROTESTS AGAINST THE RESTRICTIVE MEASURES WITH REGARD TO COVID-19)

Abstract

Due to the latest world events, the COVID-19 spreading is the most discussed topic in the media discourse, it is also known that almost every country has restrictive measures in order to avoid the situation to get worse. As a result, a lot of protests take place in the world. The article gives the French cognitive script PROTESTATION frame analysis including the following structural elements: time, place, nomination, subjects, objects, emotivity, acts, tools, slogans that can be also studied in different ways and divided into groups, and results. Based on the publications in the media edition Le Figaro, the article studies the peculiarities of mass media discourse devoted to the protests against the restrictive measures connected with COVID-19 all over the world. Publications chosen for the study have some distinctive characteristics: hyper-textuality, a creolized form, accessibility, ideological, politic, and social marks. More than that, frequently the protests are described closer to conflicts and military actions. The results of the research push the study into the field of ordinary media communication devoted to the same subject. The work was supported by RFBR grant № 20 012-00375, “Ordinary media discourse: linguoculturological and lexicographical aspects”.