Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2024 17 (5)

Authors

Volkova, Iana A.

Contact information

Volkova, Iana A.: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia Moscow, Russian Federation;

Keywords

destructiveness; destructive text; intention; content category; axiological dominant

Abstract

Destructiveness is considered as a content category of the text; an attempt is made to identify the parameters of the destructive text in the media discourse. The relevance is determined by several factors, among which are the erosion of genre and ethical norms in communication and the need to develop and implement norms of respectful communication in the media. The subject is the ways and means of expressing the destructive component in media texts of different genres. To achieve this, the place of destructiveness among the related concepts of aggression / aggressiveness, hostility and conflict is determined. It is shown that hostile emotions trigger the use of linguistic means of expressing aggression in texts, thus implementing the destructive intention of the author/addressee. Of the five dimensions of destructive communication previously defined for discourse, three – intentional, emotional, and situational – are found applicable to the destructive text. The method of qualitative contextual text analysis was chosen as the main methodological tool of the study. It was applied for journalistic texts, texts of notes and blogs, as well as initiating texts and commentary texts in social media with a total of 300 units. It is revealed that the intentional and emotional-semantic focuses of the text can help identify its destructive component. The analyzed material showed that the destructiveness in texts may be defined through an intention to humiliate the object (which may be different from the addresser) and/or to assert themselves by humiliating the object. The destructive intention is embodied in the content components of the text, which include obscene, negatively colored emotional and evaluative, and substandard vocabulary. The destructive component can also be expressed through the imperative, thus initiating a psychological pattern for the physical destruction of the object. The third parameter involves a violation of the text axiological structure, with anti-values presented as predominant

Pages

938–949

EDN

ODFQEO

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/152897

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