WORLD MODELING OF THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PRESS DISCOURSE

This article studies the world modeling of the English-language press discourse within the framework of synthesizing such scientific fields as cognitive linguistics, linguacultural studies and discourse studies. At the same time, the study of world modeling is based on the integration of cognitive-discursive and linguistic-cultural paradigms. The integrative approach of the two paradigms allows us to identify not only distinctive features, but also their interdependence. The author reveals determinants of cognitive-discursive and linguistic-cultural paradigms, determines the role of discourse in the study and formulates its definition. Thus, the author considers discourse as a duality, which emphasizes the multifaceted nature of the phenomenon. Discourse is a mental and social context determined by specific cognitive processes occurring in the collective consciousness, but at the same time, the dynamism and openness of its system allows it to be interpreted as a quantum of speech. The author pays special attention to the analysis of world modeling as a matrix of Englishlanguage reality based within the framework of discourse. To implement the analysis, the author attempts to develop a model of its study by recreating the pattern of interaction between cognitive and cultural systems, reflecting the interconnectedness and interdependence of such elements as ‘thinking’, ‘language’, ‘person’, ‘culture’, ‘consciousness’, ‘knowledge’, ‘concept’. The study shows the hierarchy of interaction between the concepts of ‘knowledge’, ‘consciousness’, ‘thinking’ and ‘thought’, which allows us to outline the characteristic features of each element. The author also identifies the peculiarities of the world-modelling representation of the English-language press discourse and notes that the English-language press discourse has a peripheral system and a core. The peripheral system is social in nature, and is characterized by correlation with the present and future tenses. The core of the English-language discourse of the press has philosophical and political characters, and there is no correlation with a specific time period. The effect is ‘timeless’. One of the distinctive features of the periphery and core of the English-language press discourse is its meaningful component. The periphery reflects ideology and values, and the core is the quintessence of a universal sensory-imaginative code with an individual form of social consciousness characteristic of a particular society.