Nomination peculiarities of subject of terrorist acts in French newspaper (on basis of newspapers "Le figaro" and "Liberation")

The issue of terrorism is becoming increasingly important in the world. In addition to adopting the necessary security measures, it is also required to study the problem in the most comprehensive way. The current study will allow to present the cumulative knowledge of terrorism and to consider it in a more detailed way. With the help of component analysis and contextual meanings of a word "terrorism", as well as frame analysis of the concepts of "terrorism", key components of its meaning are identified. Based on these results we study the development of the concept "terrorism". The analysis of lexicographical sources shows that firstly "terrorism" appeared in the XVIII century and referred to violent acts of the revolutionaries. However, modern interpretation of the meanings is substantially different from the first one. The analysis of dictionary definitions helps to create a total view on this phenomenon and to define its basic components. With the help of cognitive semantic analysis we modeled the frame, which is presented as a mental structure, showing the body of knowledge about terrorism. Further we carried out a semantic analysis of the nominations which describe the subject of terrorist acts in the role of patient, such as a terrorist, an Islamist, a jihadist, etc. The material of the study is based on the articles of the French newspaper “Le Figaro” and “Libération” published in the first month since the beginning of counter-terrorist operation "Serval", which took place on the territory of Mali.