Vol. 8 No. 23 (2019)
Articles

Semantic neutralization of current socio-political terms as a factor of psychological adaptation in present-day communicative conditions

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  • Olga Vasilyevna Shatalova,
  • Tatiana Yuryevna Pavelieva
Olga Vasilyevna Shatalova
Institute of Philology at Lipetsk State Pedagogical P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky University, Lipetsk, Russian Federation
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Tatiana Yuryevna Pavelieva
Institute of Philology at Lipetsk State Pedagogical P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky University, Lipetsk, Russian Federation
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Published 2019-10-11

Keywords

  • Semantics, linguistic persona, communicative environment, mass media, the Internet, psychological adaptation.

How to Cite

Shatalova, O. V., & Pavelieva, T. Y. (2019). Semantic neutralization of current socio-political terms as a factor of psychological adaptation in present-day communicative conditions. Amazonia Investiga, 8(23), 517–525. Retrieved from https://www.amazoniainvestiga.info/index.php/amazonia/article/view/898

Abstract

The study investigates the attributes of functional transformation occurring in the semantics of some notions that are characteristic of the current socio-political environment, including: “war”, “a militant”, “an extremist”, “a terrorist”, “a suicide attacker”, “a separatist”, “a rebel fighter”, “an air strike”, “a peacekeeper”, “a refugee / refugees”, and “cyber warfare”. The experiment carried out within the framework of the study aimed to discover the peculiarities of perceiving the aforementioned notions by individuals a given community. Based on the results of several conclusions regarding the semantic transformation of the concepts in the present-day communicative environment were made. The article describes the qualitative and quantitative results of the testing undertaken during the experiment – the testing indicates that Russian language speakers subconsciously tend to neutralize negative connotations, which is conditioned by various socio-psychological factors and the etymology of socio-political terms.

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