Verbal discrimination in the media space as a reflection of understanding of speech and behavioral aggression: differences in interpretations of East and West
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5075-2024-2-18-39
Abstract
Aim. To consider the phenomenon of verbal discrimination through the prism of speech and behavioral aggression in the ideological traditions of the East and West, which is due to contradictions in the understanding of aggression in different ethnic cultures.
Methodology. The uncertainty of the status of aggression made it possible to use a synergetic approach to the analysis of this phenomenon, taking into account the construction of parametric architecture that includes blocks related to different areas of knowledge about aggression.
Results. The authors summarized the existing approaches and presented the triggers of different interpretations of aggression in the linguistic cultures of the East and West, based on the understanding of verbal discrimination as an integral part of aggressive speech and behavioral practices. It is revealed that the repertoire of aggressors as markers of verbal discrimination is quite diverse both in Russia and in China, revealing differences in understanding the content of aggression.
Research implications. The theoretical significance is due to the discovery of discrepancies and differences in interpretations of the very concept of "aggression" in the media space of Russia and China from the standpoint of a synergetic approach, which allowed us to identify a new angle of view on the problem of public debate, as well as to state the need to develop new methods for assessing the facts of verbal discrimination and aggression.
About the Authors
I. Karabulatova
Heilongjiang University; Lomonosov Moscow State University; Bauman Moscow State Technical University; Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Irina S. Karabulatova – Dr. Sci. (Philology), Prof., Head of the Research Center for Digital Humanities, Institute of Russian language, Heilongjiang University; Leading Researcher, Laboratory “Semantic Analysis and Machine Learning”, Institute for Advanced Study of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Prof., Department IU5 “Information processing and man agement systems”, Bauman Moscow State Technical University; Prof., Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
74 Xuefulu Street, Harbin 150080, Nangang District, People's Republic of People's Republic of China
Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow 119991
Vtoraya Baumanskaya ulitsa 5 build. 1, Moscow 105005
ulitsa Miklukho-Maklaya 6, Moscow 117198
L. Zhang
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Zhang Ludan – Postgraduate Student, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology
ulitsa Miklukho-Maklaya 6, Moscow 117198
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