Oil price war - 2020 in intercultural communication

Doklady Bashkirskogo Universiteta. 2021. Volume 6. No. 6. pp. 393-398.

Authors


Ishemgulova A. I.*
Bashkir State University
32 Zaki Validi Street, 450076 Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia

Abstract


The article considers some aspects of the topical issue of exploring the depiction of the oil price conflict in conditions of crisis communication exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The research aims at disclosing peculiarities of reflecting the collapse in oil prices in national variants of the oil media discourse. The material of the study was articles in the original in English, Arabic and Russian, selected for analysis and posted on the portals of well-known international media sources from the beginning of the pandemic to the present.

Keywords


  • the oil discourse
  • national variants of the oil discourse
  • price conflict
  • media discourse
  • crisis communication