Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University518510.18287/2542-0445-2017-23-1.1-81-84UnknownANTHROPOCENTRIC MODELS IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING MEDIA DISCOURSEDenisovN. V.morenov.sv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097Samara National Research University01012017231.1818424102017Copyright © 2017, Denisov N.V.2017<p class="a"><span lang="EN-US">The article deals with such key definitions as anthropocentrism, discourse and media discourse. The article is also devoted to the research of such phenomena as concept and cognitive map and their distinction. The author also examines the influence of English media discourse on forming the cognitive map of a person.</span></p>антропоцентризмдискурсмедиадискурскогнитивная картаконцепт.anthropocentrismdiscoursemedia discoursecognitive mapconcept.[1. Benveniste E. O sub"ektivnosti v iazyke [On subjectivity in language]. In: Obshchaia lingvistika [General linguistics]. М., 1974, 322 p. [in Russian].][2. Van Dijk T.A. K opredeleniiu diskursa [On the definition of discourse]. In: Teun Van Dijk. Ideology: A Multidisciplinary Approach. London: Sage, 1998 [in English]][3. Vernadsky V.I. Zhivoe veshchestvo i biosfera [Live substance and biosphere]. М: Nauka, 1994 [in Russian].][4. Kolshansky G.V. Ob"ektivnaia kartina mira v poznanii i iazyke [Objective view of the world in cognition and Language]. М., 1990, 107 p. [in Russian].][5. Kubryakova E.S. Evoliutsiia lingvisticheskikh idei vo II polovine XX veka [Evolution of linguistic ideas in the second half of the XX century]. In: Iazyk i nauka kontsa XX veka [Language and science of the end of the XX century]. М.: RGGU, 1995, 420 p. [in Russian].][6. Lingvisticheskii entsiklopedicheskii slovar' [Linguistic encyclopedic dictionary]. М.: Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1990, 182 p. [in Russian].][7. Stepanov Yu.S. Konstanty: Slovar' russkoi kul'tury: Izd. 2-e, ispr. i dop. [Constants: Dictionary of the Russian culture: 2nd edition, revised and enlarged]. М.: Akademicheskii proekt, 2001, 590 p. [in Russian].][8. Chernyavskaya V.E. Diskurs vlasti i vlast' diskursa. Problemy rechevogo vozdeistviia [Discourse of power and power of discourse. Problems of speech influence]. М., 2006, 133 p. [in Russian].][9. Stubbs M. Discourse Analysis: the Sociolinguistic Analysis of Natural Language. Oxford, 1983 [in English]]