INTERETHNIC CONFLICT MEDIA DISCOURSE IN THE MODERN ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SPACE

Abstract

The author examines interethnic conflict media discourse in the modern ethno-linguistic information space of Russia on the example of the analysis of statements in popular social networks of the post-Soviet space about relations between Russia and the West. The author believes that the productivity and variability of interethnic conflict discourse depends on the tasks of the mental information war at one stage or another. The author emphasizes the illocutionary nature of interethnic conflict discourse, gives its parametrization and expresses concern about the deepening of verbal ethno-traumatic strategies. The communicative register is not relevant to the conflict discourse, at the same time, any communicative failure has constructive potential, unless the participants in the discourse developing according to any scenario do not shy away from determining the situation. The object for analysis is the Odnoklassniki social network, which clearly reflects conflict-oriented discursive strategies in the Russian post-Soviet interethnic conflict (Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan).