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All-Russian academic journal
“Issues of Cognitive Linguistics”

TABOO MEANINGS IN MASS MEDIA DISCOURSE

TABOO MEANINGS IN MASS MEDIA DISCOURSE


Author:  Kulikova L.V., Popova J.V.

Affiliation:  Siberian Federal University

Abstract:  The article focuses on the problem of functioning and representation of taboo meanings in modern mass media discourse. 
The new interpretation of the taboo phenomenon in language theory and studying of taboo creating and breaking processes demonstrate the academic novelty of the research held in the framework of the intensively developing communicative-discursive direction of Russian linguistics. The subject matter of the research is the lingua-communicative means of the explication of taboo speech meanings. Finding out and systemic describing them in the context of mass media field characteristics is the aim of the work. To realize this aim the authors used the methods of the interpretative discourse-analysis and pragmalinguistic analysis. The empiric material includes modern German and Russian TV programs, films and Internet articles. Their fragments illustrate the authors’ conclusions that taboo speech meanings are often represented in mass media discourse with the help of at least 12 means. Herewith, all the revealed means are used for taboo creating or taboo breaking. It is determined by the peculiarities of the interaction type: desire for sensation and at the same time refusal from direct estimation. 
The theoretical conclusions and classification of the means of taboo speech meanings explication can be interesting for linguistic theory of discourse analysis, communicative linguistics and intercultural communication.

Keywords:  taboo, taboo meanings, mass media discourse, discursive practices, taboo speech meanings explication

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Pages:  52-60

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