Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Quarantine Scenarios: Reflection of Non-Trivial Life Experience in Language and Discourse

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (1)
Authors
Beletskiy, Stanislav B.; Soshnikov, Dmitriy V.
Contact information
Beletskiy, Stanislav B.: National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russian Federation; ; Soshnikov, Dmitriy V.: National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russian Federation; Moscow Aviation Institute Moscow, Russian Federation;
Keywords
quarantine; metaphor; representation; linguocultural model; pandemic; COVID‑19
Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe the processes of meaning-making of the pandemic discourse based on the material of the corpus-collection of interviews with students about life in self-isolation in the spring of 2020. We develop a model for formalizing the non-trivial experience of life in quarantine and self-isolation through the analysis of communicative practices of its translation and macrounits of pandemic discourse: nodal points and semiotic scenarios reflecting the content of the linguocultural model QUARANTINE. The analysis of the actant-temporal structure of the events in which the QUARANTINE lexeme occurs allows us to present the concept behind it in the form of a binary cluster scenario linguocultural model. The model reflects two strategies for verbalizing the experience of living in quarantine: A) treating quarantine as a new normal and focusing on integrating it into one’s way of life; B) Treating quarantine as a test and focusing on overcoming difficulties. Neural network analysis of the corpora of texts of the pre-COVID era and the corpus of interviews indicates that model A is typical for Russian linguistic culture and is found in everyday stories without a climax, while model B acts as its labeled opposition and is found in stories that have a narrative structure

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119–131
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PCZGGN
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/154381

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