Frequency of non-verbal communication markers in women's publicistic discourse (based on the articles of ellen barry in “the new york times”)

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study of markers of non-verbal communication in the publicistic discourse of Ellen Barry, a journalist of “The New York Times”. Despite the increased attention of specialists, the analysis of scientifi c works indicated the problems of defi ning the concepts of publicistic discourse, gender and non-verbal communication. At the same time, it is indicated that publicistic discourse is one of the most important types of discourse for study, which is due to the focus on the constant transfer of information about world events and the life of modern people. In turn, it is assumed that the gender characteristics of journalists infl uence the choice of means of describing various facts in publicistic discourse. The importance and relevance of studying the non-verbal form of communication that contributes to the disclosure of a deeper semantic layer was recognized. In view of the relevance of studying these phenomena, a more diffi cult task is to determine the manifestation of the gender component in verbalized markers of non-verbal communication in publicistic discourse. For this purpose, the methodological tools of the cognitive-hermeneutic analysis were used. As a result of using this method, we analyzed the use of chronemes, proxemes, sensemes, kinemes and takemes as markers of non¬verbal communication based on the journalist's articles. The quantitative method helped to determine the frequency of the considered nominees. The article concludes that the most frequent markers of non-verbal communication found in the articles of journalist Ellen Barry are proxemes and chronomes. Kinemes and sensemes are used with an average frequency in the publicistic discourse. Takemes are defi ned as low-frequency markers of non-verbal communication in articles by Ellen Barry.