Yerevan state university

Armenian Genocide- starvation, thirst, genocide, systematic; premeditated; centrally planned genocide, massacre planning and execution of Genocide, deportation, annihilate, physical abuse, killings, the first large-scale genocide, execution, atrocities , starvation, disease, harsh environment, mass killings, large disaster, cleansing, mass murder, assimilation, brutality,

Bangladesh Genocide - atrocities, genocide, brave, courageous, defiant, massacres, devil, massive humanitarian crisis, brutal crime, annihilation, sexual violence, ruthless massacre, killings, bloodbath, bloodiest slaughter, selective elimination, brutal genocide, cold-blooded murder.

The highlighted words are the ones which are mostly used in the articles in order to describe both Armenian and Bangladesh genocides, and from this wordlist we can also conclude that in all cultures and societies the same concepts, expressions, terms and toponyms are used for describing genocidal events. We can make some analysis in order to find out which vocabulary groups are often used in the “Daily Star” newspaper. It should be noted from the very outset that it is difficult to draw a distinct line between these groups, for when used within other register, a word may acquire a new meaning and thus enter a different stratum.

According to the Russian famous linguist O. Akhmanova, generally, vocabulary consists of the following units: general words, special terms and terminological word-combination and general scientific vocabulary. Saying general words we understand most frequently used words which comprise the base of the language (today, yet, speak, attitude). The second type is characterized as general scientific vocabulary and comprises those words which are used in order to convey scientific information regardless of the fact whether the information is strictly scientific related to the natural sciences or related to the humanities. This vocabulary unit is widely used in newspaper language (deportation, slaughtering, genocide, democide, holocaust). The third one comprises specialized terms which encounter in newspaper language very seldom (equipment rental, deer fencing) (Akhmanova 1987:76).

As we have already mentioned stylistically marked part of the vocabulary classified into two major groups: informal and formal. The formal vocabulary includes the following groups: scientific words, officialese, literary, poetic words, scientific terminology, archaic and obsolete words, barbarisms (Girunyan 2009:41-44). From the given vocabulary we can conclude that scientific word groups, literary word groups and poetic word groups are dominant in the genocidal articles of the “Daily Star” newspaper.