DYNAMIC RESEARCH OF THE “ILLEGITIMATE POWER” NETWORK CONCEPT (BASED ON THE ENGLISH YOUTUBE COMMENTS)

Abstract

The article deals with representation of concepts, which are the basis of the naïve political linguistic picture of the world of the network community members in the texts of the Internet comments to the English political YouTube video “Ukraine Burning” dedicated to 2014 crisis in Ukraine. Special attention is given towards the dynamic aspect according to which the content of the concept is susceptible to change in the course of time. A brief theoretical substantiation of the terms “concept” and “picture of the world” as well as methods of conceptual analysis from the perspective of naïve linguistic politology is given. The term “network concept” is proposed. It reflects some of the main peculiarities of the network discourse such as anonymity, manipulative nature and others. The content analysis pints out that in the comments two variants of the concept “illegitimate power” are formed. Their content is studied via distributing the units verbalizing it into thematic groups.