The concept «traditional Chinese medicine» in modern media texts about COVID-19 treatment in Russian and Chinese languages

Authors

  • Kuo Chen People’s Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba, 6 Miklukho-Maklaya Street, Moscow 117198, Russia
  • Irina S. Karabulatova People’s Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba, 6 Miklukho-Maklaya Street, Moscow 117198, Russia

Keywords:

traditional Chinese medicine, media text, COVID-19, pandemic, ethnocultural code

Abstract

Traditional Chinese medicine as a unique ethno-cultural theoretical and practical valeological system has extensive experience in the prevention and treatment of diseases based on the normalisation of alternative neuro-linguopsycho-physiological communication between a person and his body. The author of the article analyses the content of messages from modern Russian- and Chinese-language speakers about the use of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of the COVID-19, and also offers an assessment of the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic in modern Russian- and Chinese-language media messages. The purpose of the work is to analytically examine media messages about traditional Chinese medicine in Russia and China from the perspective of «translating» signs of nonverbal-paraverbal means of communication between the body and a person in the interpretative philosophical ideas of traditional Chinese medicine.

Author Biographies

  • Kuo Chen, People’s Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba, 6 Miklukho-Maklaya Street, Moscow 117198, Russia

    postgraduate student at the department of foreign languages, faculty of philology

  • Irina S. Karabulatova, People’s Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba, 6 Miklukho-Maklaya Street, Moscow 117198, Russia

    doctor of science (philology), full pro­ fessor; professor at the department of fo­reign languages, faculty of philology

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Published

2024-10-24

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No. 2 (2024): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Journalism

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Theory and Practice of Foreign Mass Media

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Chen, K. and Karabulatova, I.S. 2024. The concept «traditional Chinese medicine» in modern media texts about COVID-19 treatment in Russian and Chinese languages. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Journalism. 2 (Oct. 2024), 63–67.