Lingvoconcept "Fear" In Modern English and Russian Mass Media Discourse

DOI

10.2991/fred-19.2020.83How to use a DOI?

Keywords

phobias, migration, media, political discourse, manipulativity of mass consciousness, refugees, crimes, state authorities

Abstract

The authors consider the linguistic mechanisms of formation, fixation and implementation of phobic attitudes in the English-speaking and Russian-language press. For the basis of discursive practices involved in the formation of phobias, the authors took the category "migration". The authors compare phobic language material in Russian and American media. Based on the analysis of modern authentic language of the new material, the authors reveal similar and special features in the language manifestations of phobias, emphasizing that the phobia installations themselves, and later indeed, the choice of language means of their manifestation are under influence of the political situation in the country. The phobias attitudes broadcast by the Russian media can be described as individual and public fears for their own lives and material well-being. The American publications, on the contrary, describe the phobias attitudes as a threat to common European values and cultural well-being. The authors highlighted the differences in presenting information and revealing the sources of their information (American publications are very clear about the sources of information, while the Russian press does not give a specific nomination of its source of information). The American publications are characterized by cases of protectionist description of migrants, while the causer of phobia is more intensely coloured in negative tones in Russian-language media. The analyzed articles are characterized by manipulativity of mass consciousness - the propaganda of the ideas of fear on a human scale and religion.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - E.R. Mikhaylova
AU  - I.B. Getskina
AU  - G.I. Shpareva
PY  - 2020/01
DA  - 2020/01
TI  - Lingvoconcept "Fear" In Modern English and Russian Mass Media Discourse
BT  - Proceedings of the International Session on Factors of Regional Extensive Development (FRED 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 411
EP  - 414
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/fred-19.2020.83
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