INTERTEXTUALITY AND INTERDISCURSIVITY OF RUSSIAN WAR NARRATIVE: PROPAGANDA VS LINGUISTICS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26661/2414-1135-2023-90-8
Keywords: intertextuality, intertexteme, discourse, interdiscursivity, propaganda discourse, scientific discourse, narrative.

Abstract

The article aims at extracting ideologically marked intertextemes and analyzing them from the viewpoint of propaganda discourse and narrative manipulation. The study investigates how intertextuality in media discourse works as a tool for ideological propaganda within the Russian-Ukrainian War. Propaganda intertextemes can be cognized and extracted through formal aspects of language. It becomes provable that text producers' choices of lexemes and textems reflect the narrative they create with the intention to influence their final addressee. The research discovers how intertextuality is shaped in the interdiscourse by dragging certain linguistic composites of different discourses with the intention of introducing them into a specific context for propaganda effect. Media and scholarly (inter)discourse producers are incorporating a number of strategies for the purpose of manipulation and disinformation. The study explores how they use natural language, especially intertextemes, as a manipulating instrument. The study is a combination of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the topic under research. Intertextuality of Russian propaganda is seen as the combination of linguistic and extralinguistic phenomena that implicitly deviates from the true world picture, while focusing on the desired (false) message to be communicated. The key purpose of the manipulators is to impose a desired thinking pattern; entice the recipient to think and behave the way these (inter)discourse creators expect them to. The analyses revealed that ideologically-centered language choices of propaganda product creators fall within certain patterns: an attempt of a pseudo scholarly grounding for supporting indivisibility of russia and Ukraine, while denying the sovereignty of Ukraine; destructive rhetoric towards language policy of Ukraine; unjustly glorifying soviet remnants; ritualism; criticism of the West countries, the USA and EU; usage of pejorative political euphemisms; depreciation of Ukraine-related nobility; expressing approval of russian aggression; manipulating within scholarly narratives. The enlisted patterns aim at instilling tacit ideas into the informative field, consequently the minds of chosen addressees. Further research might be conducted by analyzing other intralingual and foreign language resources according to the principle of typology proposed in this article.

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Published
2023-08-28
How to Cite
Levchenko, O. P., & Hrytsiv, N. M. (2023). INTERTEXTUALITY AND INTERDISCURSIVITY OF RUSSIAN WAR NARRATIVE: PROPAGANDA VS LINGUISTICS. New Philology, (90), 54-63. https://doi.org/10.26661/2414-1135-2023-90-8
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No. 90 (2023): NEW PHILOLOGY
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