The subject of the study is the peculiarities of the structure of the regional news discourse – the discourse of Omsk and the Omsk region. The text–centric approach made it possible to identify in the regional news discourse a structural unit larger than the text – the text chain. The architecture of the regional news media discourse is considered as a set of continuous messages, or chains of texts. A number of chronologically ordered events fit into discursive plots, "discursive fragments" combined semantically and functionally. At the same time, "in the development of each information story, it is important to trace the degree of its unfoldment: this will manifest its discoursogenicity (the ability to generate discourse). These text associations – chains – reflect both the specifics of the regional agenda and the communicative and pragmatic features of the news discourse of a particular region. Monitoring of regional Internet news resources made it possible to identify information causes that gave rise to chains of news texts, represented in the regional media discourse in the winter of 2023-2024. The analysis of the regional media space involves relying on a number of methods of discursive and linguistic analysis. The analysis technique is based on a structural approach to the analysis of a "discrete text stream" and involves the allocation of fragments in discourse, "quanta" – larger than the text. Content analysis allows us to identify discourse-forming plots and episodes, characters of the regional media discourse. The discursive plots and episodes represented in the news discourse of the Omsk region in the winter of 2024 are highlighted. Using the example of the analysis of two discursive plots, it is revealed that the chains of regional news texts are built around information occasions that have gained wide public resonance. As a result of the analysis of empirical material, it was found that the actions and statements of the authorities – the governor and the mayor – can be attributed to the nuclear composite block of news text chains in the regional media discourse. They are inscribed into the journalistic narrative as heroes, actors, and characters. Text chains may vary in volume and intensity. Being open-ended structures, text chains can be extended through collections of readers' comments. Grouping texts by information source made it possible to see the degree of variability in the communicative and pragmatic presentation of the event by news agencies.
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