Cancel culture: cognitive mechanisms of meaning transmission in media discourse
... unified conceptual-cognitive mechanism facilitating the transmission, consolidation, and normalisation of axiological meanings in the media sphere. Drawing on contemporary English-language media discourse, the study identifies and analyses several cognitive mechanisms underlying the construction, interpretation, and stabilisation of meaning within cancel culture narratives. These include conceptual framing, which structures discourse through binary oppositions and evaluative schemata; scripts, representing ...
