Corpus-based semantic analysis of Russian media paraphrased verbs - a case study of three types of Chinese event reports

Xiao Rou

This paper adopts a corpus linguistic analysis method to examine the frequency and distribution of various types of paraphrased verbs in three types of news reports on China by Russian mainstream media in recent times, analyze the semantic components and semantic patterns of high-frequency paraphrased verbs in news reports, and elucidate the differences in their semantic features; and analyze the way the media shape and In addition, we analyze the way the media shape and disseminate their opinions at the level of lexical usage.

Keywords:news reporting; corpus linguistics; reporting verbs; semantic components