Interdiscourse of information and psychological warfare as a type of conciental weapon
DOI 10.51955/2312-1327_2021_4_77
Abstract. The article is devoted to the linguistic analysis of the cognitive and communicative mechanism of indoctrination of target-objects in the paradigm of information and psychological warfare initiated by the collective West, led by the United States, with the aim of destroying the integral potential of the opposing states by non-combat means. The author’s concept focuses on language as an instrument of ideological influence carried out at the macro level in the format of interdiscourse, explicated in the spheres of social communication in the form of polarized discursive practices. Using the methods of semantic-structural, conceptual and pragmatic analysis, the author reveals the specifics of the verbalization of communication strategies used for mental influence and speech stimulation in the English-language discourse, identifies the lexical means of secondary nomination and ideological markers of linguocognitive manipulation. As a result of the study, it is concluded that the forms and methods of modeling the interdiscursive environment in the global media, methods of ideological polarization of speech, as well as the specifics of their communicative use for the purpose of manipulating consciousness identify the interdiscourse of information and psychological warfare as a type of conciental weapon.
Keywords: interdiscourse, information and psychological warfare, communication strategy, means of secondary nomination, ideological polarization, linguocognitive manipulation.
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