The article deals with the linguistic identity of a politician on the material of V.V. Putin's statements. The politician's discourse is studied based on the interpretative analysis of phraseology. Linguistic data verbalize the thematic component of strategies and tactics of speech influence utilized by the politician under consideration. The linguocognitive approach that includes the complex parameters of a politician's speech is the basis for identifying essential features of a linguistic identity. The politician's discourse is studied based on the interpretational analysis of an utterance. A hypothesis is put forward that the semantics of phraseological units with a thematic component reflects the attitude of any linguistic culture towards fundamental concepts of being and thinking, and the means of political verbalization can be considered as elements of a nation's selfidentification. The authors see the prospects of the study in developing new synergetic cognitive and communicative approaches to studying phraseology with a thematic component.
This article aims to solve the following scientific problem: to study the ways of interaction between mass media, audience and authorities used in regional practice. The relevance and scientific significance of solving the above-mentioned problem lies in the fact that modern mass media exist in a dynamically changing social space. The main objective is to determine how fully events of the political and public life of a country or region are reflected in the daily practice of regional mass media. Based on the analysis of print media, the authors of the article consider the authenticity, completeness and objectivity of the information worldview created by journalists of the Arkhangelsk Region. The contractual mechanism of information services used by authorities forces journalists to resort to self-censorship and non-disclosure of socially important information, which leads to the creation of media myths and the loss of professionalism, as well as changes essential characteristics of journalism. It is indicated that it is much more dangerous for this profession to consciously distort the reflected reality by emphasizing some events or certain aspects of the displayed phenomena and concealing others, i.e. manipulating mass consciousness through non-disclosure. Non-disclosure not only erases, destroys and eliminates facts, but also creates a mythical, distorted and unreliable information worldview.
This article aims to solve the following scientific problem: to study the ways of interaction between mass media, audience and authorities used in regional practice. The relevance and scientific significance of solving the above-mentioned problem lies in the fact that modern mass media exist in a dynamically changing social space. The main objective is to determine how fully events of the political and public life of a country or region are reflected in the daily practice of regional mass media. Based on the analysis of print media, the authors of the article consider the authenticity, completeness and objectivity of the information worldview created by journalists of the Arkhangelsk Region. The contractual mechanism of information services used by authorities forces journalists to resort to self-censorship and non-disclosure of socially important information, which leads to the creation of media myths and the loss of professionalism, as well as changes essential characteristics of journalism. It is indicated that it is much more dangerous for this profession toconsciously distort the reflected reality by emphasizing some events or certain aspects of the displayed phenomena and concealing others, i.e. manipulating mass consciousness through non-disclosure. Non-disclosure not only erases, destroys and eliminates facts, but also creates a mythical, distorted and unreliable information worldview. ; Este artículo pretende resolver el siguiente problema científico: estudiar las formas de interacción entre los medios de comunicación, el público y las autoridades utilizadas en la práctica regional. La relevancia y el significado científico de resolver el problema mencionado radica en el hecho de que los medios de comunicación modernos existen en un espacio social que cambia dinámicamente. El objetivo principal es determinar cómo se reflejan plenamente los eventos de la vida política y pública de un país o región en la práctica diaria de los medios de comunicación regionales. Sobre la base del análisis de los medios impresos, los autores del artículo consideran la autenticidad, integridad y objetividad de la visión del mundo de la información creada por los periodistas de la región de Arkhangelsk. El mecanismo contractual de los servicios de información utilizados por las autoridades obliga a los periodistas a recurrir a la autocensura y la no divulgación de información socialmente importante, lo que lleva a la creación de mitos mediáticos y la pérdida de profesionalismo, así como a cambios en las características esenciales del periodismo. Se indica que para esta profesión es mucho más peligroso distorsionar conscientemente la realidad reflejada al enfatizar algunos eventos o ciertos aspectos de los fenómenos mostrados y ocultar otros, es decir, manipular la conciencia de masas a través de la no divulgación. La no divulgación no solo borra, destruye y elimina hechos, sino que también crea una visión del mundo de la información mítica, distorsionada y no confiable. ; Научная проблема, на решение которой направлена данная работа, ― исследование способов взаимодействия средств массовой информации, аудитории и власти, применяемых в региональной практике. Актуальность и научная значимость решения проблемы состоит в том, что современные СМИ существуют в условиях динамично изменяющегося социального пространства. Цель работы – определить, насколько полно отражаются события политической и общественной жизни страны и региона в повседневной практике региональных СМИ. На основе анализа печатных изданий рассматривается достоверность, полнота и объективность информационной картины мира, создаваемой журналистами СМИ Архангельской области. Договорный механизм информационного обслуживания органов власти вынуждает журналистов прибегать к самоцензуре и замалчиванию общественно важных сведений, что приводит к созданию медиамифов и утратепрофессионализма, меняет сущностные характеристики журналистики. Указывается, что намного опаснее для профессии сознательное искажение отражаемой реальности путем акцентирования, подчеркивания одних событий или отдельных сторон отображаемых явлений и замалчивания других, то есть манипулирования массовым сознанием путем умолчаний. Умолчание не только вычеркивает, уничтожает, устраняет факты, но и творит, создавая мифическую, искаженную, недостоверную информационную картину мира.
Foreign (especially English) language learning has witnessed growing popularity in Russia over the last decades due to the enormous change in economic, political, legal, and cultural domains in the current period. The increasing need for good English speaking and writing skills put forward a demand for the accurate use of lexical items and grammatical structures by those who study English as a foreign language (EFL). Lexical and grammatical accuracy acquires a crucial importance in reasoning and argumentation. A slapdash word or syntactic construction in the argument structure may submit the listener to a conclusion, which is completely different from what the speaker implied. Such issues may be particularly frustrating in academic, legal, business, medical, and other types of institutional discourse. The rules of Aristotelian logic, underlying the good majority of reasoning structures, are generic. Therefore, it is a certain difference between the two languages, native (Russian) and foreign (English), that makes Russian students of English misinterprete logical chains and use irrelevant lexical items and grammatical constructions.
The discourse of American politicians like any other political figures prominently features a narrative – a system of interconnected stories that transition from one into another from speech to speech. The ideological narrative in political discourse plays an important part in myth creation in supporting the concept of Exceptional America. The potential of linguistic means, specifically, metaphors, in the narrative is typically used to achieve the main communicative goal – for example, the protection of traditional values, America's right for exceptionalism and promotion of the national interests. Context analysis of the usage of these metaphors shows that the speaker models politics as a means of protecting valuable concepts (freedom, peace, leadership, democracy, security, health, dream) which feeds into a myth in the public consciousness, be it the American dream, American exceptionalism, American freedoms or something else. In these contexts, metaphors are usually aimed at influence rather than modeling the political system. The metaphors capture the audience, show the speaker's solidarity with the public and prompt the people to engage in a dialogue with the authorities, hold those in power accountable, not be afraid, feel the unity and historical continuity of the common cause and build the future together. The conceptual metaphor is an efficient narrative technique and way to transition from language to consciousness. The modeling of the state's actions aimed at protecting the basic values of the American society activates in the addressee's consciousness a metaphorical model that contributes to a more figurative and accessible interpretation of reality. The article deals with the features of metaphor functioning in the modern ideological narrative of the United States of America, expounds the role of the metaphors in the implementation of the global communicative strategy "Us and Them" and the ensuing tactical moves.
