MEANS OF VERBAL AGRESSION AS A TOOL OF INFORMATION WARS (BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE ARCTIC MEDIA DISCOURSE)
Bulatova Elena Ivanovna
Academy of Media Industry, Moscow
Abstract. The article analyzes the means of linguistic influence in the Arctic media discourse, with the help of which the information wars for the Arctic resources in electronic and print media are conducted. The author investigates the use of the means of verbal aggression in the Arctic media discourse: the examples of aggressive similes and metaphors are given and analyzed, word-formative neologisms, abusive and foreign language vocabulary are studied. The author concludes that aggressively charged vocabulary is an effective tool of the modern media wars.
Key words and phrases: средства вербальной агрессии, арктический медиадискурс, медиатекст, агональность, персуазивность, вариативная интерпретация действительности, медиавойны, информационные войны, means of verbal aggression, the Arctic media discourse, media text, agonality, persuasiveness, variant interpretation of reality, media wars, information wars
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