SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF MODERN MEDIA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MANIPULATIVE EFFECT ON GENERATION Z

Authors

  • Marina N. Cherkasova Rostov State Transport University
  • Anna V. Taktarova Rostov State Transport University

Abstract

DOI 10.18522/1995-0640-2023-3-30-42

Pragmalinguistic analysis of media texts with a destructive component (violence, suicide, revenge, reprisals) is presented. A feature of the media content under study is: 1) the presence of a digital communicator – a digital platform (blog, messenger, social network, video, etc.) for broadcasting and replicating the communication process by the participants themselves (representatives of generation Z); 2) the place and role of a digital communicator in the implementation of a given destructive behavioral model. The transformation of axiosphere was revealed: there were axiological shifts in the conceptual field "LIFE-DEATH". Due to it we were able to identify the potential activity of the destructive vector of the homo digitalis behavioral model. The "axiologeme" is interpreted by us as a speech signal of hidden influence. In the text it acts as a lexical unit with code evaluation, which forms positive, neutral or negative associations: death (negative in psychological and emotional terms; neutral (logical conclusion of the life way) from the point of view of Christian morality in objective reality, neutral in virtual reality, as it is possible to reboot and positive (receiving bonuses: likes, discussions, comments). The development of influence plans ("positive-approving, neutral-indifferent or negativedisapproving") for the described events allowed us to identify the author's assessment of the media text with a destructive component. Positive-approving plan – 36.4%, negative-disapproving - 46.1%, and neutral-indifferent – 18.5%. These data reflect the prospects for the preservation/non-preservation of the axiosphere of Russian linguaculture.

Key words: axiosphere, axiologeme, homo digitalis, conceptual field "LIFE-DEATH", author's evaluation

Author Biographies

Marina N. Cherkasova, Rostov State Transport University

PhD of Philology, associate professor

ORCID ID 0000-0003-2971-6486, Scopus Author ID 57195348298, Researcher ID AAJ-1535-2021

Anna V. Taktarova , Rostov State Transport University

PhD of Philology, associate professor,

ORCID ID 0000-0002-3451-2114, Scopus Author ID 57224937590, Researcher ID AAL1180-2021

Published

2023-10-02

How to Cite

Cherkasova М. Н., & Taktarova А. В. . (2023). SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF MODERN MEDIA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MANIPULATIVE EFFECT ON GENERATION Z . Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology, 27(3), 30–42. Retrieved from https://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/1871

Issue

Section

LINGUISTICS