GIFTED CHILD IN THE MIRROR OF SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS: SEMANTIC-PRAGMATIC TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMAGE IN THE MEDIA DISCOURSE
Pragmatic mechanisms and strategies for the semantic transformation of the image of a creative personality (the gifted child) in the discourse of science, in the field of mass communication and in the regional infosphere have been described. It is found that the variability of interpretation of the image in different discourses determined by the semantics and pragmatics of word- leitmotifs: abilities, creativity, achievement. The scientific community considers the phenomenon of gifted children in terms of subjectivity and anthropocentrism, which is manifested in the following: 1) the importance of self-evaluation and the expert community evaluation in the definition of the creative abilities and achievements of the child; 2) recognition of the child’s right to self-development and self-determination; 3) creation of a gifted child is analyzed as a civilized resource, as a factor in the development of culture. In the discourse of the media image is understood in terms of objectivity and sociocentrism: 1) the primary importance of the factor of social recognition, success, fashion; 2) perception of the child as an object of didactic and other impact, aimed at achieving the highest results of his creative activity; 3) abilities and achievement of such child presented as a socio-pragmatic resource that can provide solutions of the major problems of our time. The specificity of perception of the image in the regional infosphere is: 1) gifted child is considered in aspect of anthropocentric regionalism as a subject and participant in the development of regional potential; 2) creation represented by an element of social and cultural identity of the innovative region; 3) achieve defined determine by expediency of creative and professional self-expression and selfdetermination of the child in the regional educational space.
Keywords: regional infosphere, creative personality, image of child, semantic transformation
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Issue: 10, 2014
Series of issue: Issue 10
Rubric: ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF COGNITIVE AND DISCOURSE LINGUISTICS
Pages: 119 — 122
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