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Speech aggression, which is actively used in modern media discourse, is becoming one of the tools for influencing the target audience in "information wars": the world-famous mass media use a form of implicit speech aggression to manipulate public opinion globally. Research methods include frame analysis, qualitative and quantitative content analysis, and discourse analysis with the subsequent revelation of implicit speech aggression. The research material was 150 articles on foreign and domestic policy issues, which were published in 2019–2020 in the periodicals "The Times", "The Guardian" and "The Observer". The article considers the frequency of speech aggression used in the texts of the British mass media as a means of implicit influence on the readership. According to the results of the study, there are trends in the use of implicatures that potentially express verbal aggression. These implicatures are shown to appear mainly in conflictogenic texts, which contain the materials with varying degree of hostility – from insult to verbal extremism. Such frames as "COVID-19 policy", "Post-Brexit relations with EU", "Sanctions against the political regime in Russia" are noted to prevail in the publications. The most frequent means of implicit verbal aggression realization in the leading British mass media are false accusation, sarcasm, metaphor, mockery, reproach, irony, and threat.

The subject of this article are the linguistic means used to form the image-concept "Russia". Corpus content analysis on the wide range material of the British print and electronic press for 2017-2019 is the base for constructing the nominative field with the core and near, far and final peripheries of image "Russia". The conceptual analysis revealed verbal means used for expansion of the concept volume and its component layers- metaphorical, nominative, evaluative and associative. These devices create the negative image-concept of state Russia in British public consciousness.

The aim of the given study is to describe the linguistic means used in British mass media while creating the image of the opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn realizing the discreditation strategy. The method of component analysis was used to analyze the texts of the British political publications placed on the Internet. The study has shown that the dis-creditation strategy is realized via the creation of the image of J. Corbyn as a religious leader and a personality cult ruler. With this end in view, journalists and bloggers use pejorative vocabulary, neologisms, religious metaphors and a number of other linguistic means. The use of the lexeme "cult" focuses the reader's attention on the excessive reverence for the leader and the related negative consequences for the Labor Party, fanaticism and intransigence of his supporters, irrationality of their political choice, and forms the ironic attitude to the politician. The recurrent use of the lexeme "Messiah" in relation to Corbyn ascribes to him the desire to become god and serves as an expression of sarcasm. The neologism "Corbynism" used to denote the British Labor movement has a salient negative connotation. The comparison with dictatorships and the use of the expression "cult of personality" are also targeted at the politician's discreditation. ; В статье рассматриваются языковые средства, используемые в британских СМИ при создании образа лидера оппозиции Джереми Корбина для реализации стратегии дискредитации.

В статье рассматриваются коммуникативно-прагматические особенности употребления немецких заимствованных слов в английском публицистическом дискурсе. ; The article deals with communicative and pragmatic aspects of the usage of the German loan words Realpolitik and Ostpolitik in the publicistic discourse of the British Mass Media in general and the headlines of informational and analytical articles in particular.

Publication of a conference held at AZAD Centre, Sliema, on February 17, 1978. ; Among the new States, Malta has one of the longest, almost uninterrupted traditions of press freedom and, for her size, is lucky to have had a variety of newspaper opinion. It was two well-known British liberals, John Austin and George Cornwall Lewis, who responding to appeals by the Maltese leader Giorgio Mitrovich, strongly recommended the grant of press freedom to the colony. That was in 1838, when the first papers and periodicals began to be published. Before that time we can hardly say that there was a journalistic tradition at all. The Order of st. John had a printing press in the eighteenth century, but this was mainly for official works. Besides, censorship always hung over Malta's head: in the mid-seventeenth century the Grand Master had opted to close a printing press instead of having to put up with interference from the Pope and Inquisitor who insisted on nihil obstat rights in any printed matter associated with religion or the church. During the brief period of French rule over Malta, from 1798 to 1800, a vaguely Bonapartist paper, Le Journal de Malte, was published; but again this was an official gazette rather than a newspaper. It was all 'liberty, equality and fraternity'; and woe to anybody who disagreed. The same style of paper, a government gazette, continued to be published in the first decades of British rule, first in Italian only, and subsequently in Italian and English until in the early twentieth century Maltese too made an appearance in it. Apart from this, in the period before 1838, very few people managed to get anything controversial printed. One was an Italian refugee; the others were Protestant missionaries. Otherwise the only way to get printed matter distributed in Malta was to have it printed in Italy or elsewhere outside the Island, at least until 1839. ; peer-reviewed

According to some, the modern mass media have a malign effect on modern democracy, tending to induce political apathy, alienation, cynicism and a loss of social capital - in a word, 'mediamalaise'. Some theorists argue that this is the result of media content, others that it is the consequence of the form of the media, especially television. According to others, the mass media, in conjunction with rising educational levels, help to inform and mobilize people politically, making them more knowledgeable and understanding. This study investigates the mobilization and mediamalaise hypotheses, and finds little to support the latter. Reading a broadsheet newspaper regularly is strongly associated with mobilization, while watching a lot of television has a weaker association of the same kind. Tabloid newspapers and general television are not strongly associated with measures of mediamalaise. It seems to be the content of the media, rather than its form which is important. (British Journal of Political Science / FUB)