МАНИПУЛЯТИВНЫЕ РЕЧЕВЫЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ ЭКСТРЕМИСТСКИХ ТЕКСТОB
THE STRATEGIES OF VERBAL MANIPULATION IN EXTREMIST TEXTS

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the linguistic analysis of an acute present-day problem – the problem of extremist activity. Verbal extremism is defined as the manipulation of cultural and language values and which aims at forming certain stereotypes in the youth’s consciousness. The article reveals the strategy of extremist verbal influence, language and speech means which are used to manipulate the mind of the recipient. The research is based on the materials of regional periodicals and online sources containing negative evaluation of national, confessional or social groups and approving genocide, deportation and repression what representatives of a certain nation, confession or ethnic group have experienced. The article provides examples of strategies and tactics of verbal extremism. First, this is the strategy of discredit according to nationality: one nation is opposed to another – creating positive image of one nation, blaming one nation because of another nation’s disasters, justifying extremist activities. The enumerated strategies manifest as the tactics of threatening, intimidating, insulting, dramatizing and labeling. The strategies of the second level (according to the level of generalization) comprise mocking and creating a negative image which are realized through the tactics of accusation, insulting, irony, justification, dramatization, “infringement” on other people’s values, labeling, comparing, allusion, etc.

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