Cancel culture: cognitive mechanisms of meaning transmission in media discourse
... enhancing entrenchment; and multimodal integration, which combines verbal, visual, and digital semiotic resources to increase salience, emotional resonance, and persuasive force. The interaction of these mechanisms gives rise to a stable CANCEL frame, instantiated in a prototypical cognitive scenario: norm violation → public exposure → accusation → media amplification → audience mobilisation → sanction → outcome fixation. The dynamic interplay between the affirmative strategies ...
Conceptual structure of the binary axiological opposition truth — lie
... opposition truth-lie, based on the material of the English language. In English, the verbalised concept truth encodes information about both objective truth as well as its subjective perception and re-translation. A combination of methods — definitional, frame and conceptual analyses — makes it possible to investigate and model the structure of the frames TRUTH and LIE, identify their main slots and the type of conceptual information they encode. The results of the analyses suggest that the two frames ...
