Verbalization of the Phenomenon of Tolerance on the Material of English Discourse

Student: Schennikova Yuliya

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Applied Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

In the present research “Verbalization of the phenomenon of tolerance on the material of English discourse” was considered the concept of “tolerance” from the point of view of Russian and English; were identified and described cases of tolerant and intolerant information, which are most often used in English-language media-tests; were revealed the peculiarities of perception and use of the words from the derivational field in the meaning of a tolerant, reserved attitude of a person or group of people to something atypical for a society, basing on English media texts. As a material for the analysis were considered 450 English media texts. The texts were taken from electronic analogues of American and English print media from 2012 to 2017: The Christian Science Monitor, MSNBC, The New York Times, USA Today.

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