The contrast of political modalization in American and Russian sociopolitical media discourses

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  • Наталья Борисовна Боева-Омелечко Southern Federal University

Abstract

Natalya B. Boeva-Omelechko (Southern Federal University, Rostovon-Don, Russian Federation)

The article focuses on the phenomenon of political modalization as an immanent feature  of socio-political media discourse. Political modalization is not restricted to modality in the narrow, traditional sense and   presupposes ideological interpretation of facts and events described in texts of the discourse in question. This interpretation can be directly contrary in oppositional discourses. Due to it  contrast pictures of the world are created in the minds of recipients. Especially it concerns such modal objects as states.  The article reveals linguistic means used for creating two images of America which stand in opposition to each other in American and Russian socio-political media discourses. These means include  utterances with explicit evaluations (axiological means of  modalization), microcontexts where the name of America is regularly used with names of negatively or positively evaluated phenomena (syntagmatic associative means of modalization) and conceptual metaphors with  negative or positive connotations (metaphoric means of  modalization). In American socio-political discourse these means help to represent the USA as an exceptional superpower playing the vital role in the struggle for freedom, justice and peace. In contrast to it Russian sociopolitical discourse represents America as an aggressive country which seeks to dominate the world   through wars, threats, pressure on other countries. In this discourse America is associated with chaos, the unpredictability, avantyurizm, political deafness. It is concluded  that political modalization is a powerful means of influence  and effective means of its realization are worth studying.

Key words: socio-political media discourse, political modalization, contrast, America, axiological, syntagmatic associative, metaphoric means of modalization, conceptual metaphor.

DOI 10.23683/1995-0640-2017-2-178-186

Author Biography

Наталья Борисовна Боева-Омелечко, Southern Federal University

Natalya B. Boeva-Omelechko – Ph.D. of philology, professor. Institute of philology, journalism and cross-cultural communication, Southern Federal University. 

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Боева-Омелечко, Н. Б. (2017). The contrast of political modalization in American and Russian sociopolitical media discourses. Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology, (2), 178–186. Retrieved from https://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/1030

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No. 2 (2017)

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LINGUISTICS

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