Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Connotated Image as a Way of Constructing Informational Opposition in the Fictional and Publicistic Genre

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (6)
Authors
Guseinova, Innara A.; Gorozhanov, Alexey I.
Contact information
Guseinova, Innara A.: Moscow State Linguistic University Moscow, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0002-6544-699X; Gorozhanov, Alexey I.: Moscow State Linguistic University Moscow, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0003-2280-1282
Keywords
media discourse; dystopia; G. Orwell; connotation; informational confrontation; special military operation; German-language media
Abstract

The article raises the problem of constructing a connotated image of events in modern German-language media, on the basis of which the study is conducted. The authors put forward and prove a hypothesis according to which, when reflecting the events of a special military operation, the same strategies are used as in G. Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”, the stable features of which include the presence of several interconnected parts that tell about the relationship of acting characters with the state way of life; the presence of an ideal idea of building a classless society; the transformation of a positive humanized idea into a negative scenario, accompanied by violence and arbitrariness in relation to the individual; opposition of the individual to violence and arbitrariness; the breaking of individuality and man as a person or the victorious death of a person. These strategies include: the strategy of constructing a gloomy atmosphere; a strategy for restricting the rights and freedoms of an individual; a strategy for constructing the image of a state institution along the axis “internal enemy – external enemy”; a strategy for constructing a choice situation according to the “submission-struggle” model. The implementation of each of the strategies is illustrated with original examples from the German-language press. It is concluded that the main means of constructing connoted images in the German-language corpus of texts about the special military operation are: stylistic repetitions, cognitive metaphors, antithesis and evaluative vocabulary. Modal verbs and modal words are often used to formally distance oneself from the opinion being expressed

Pages
911–920
EDN
HZMXIN
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/150132

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