Новоидеологема в дискурсе американских СМИ

Abstract

The paperfocuses on discursive actualization of a new ideologemof modern history – «Russia – adversaryof the West»in the texts of American media.The main objective of the authors is to establish cognitive, axiological, pragmatic and discursive features of the new ideologem in the American media discourse. Cognitive-discursive analysis is chosen as the main method of research.American media discourse is considered from the standpoint of a modern branch of discourse studies that integrates cognitive, communicative, pragmatic, discursive components of linguistic analysis and developsWorld Modelling Theory.An original procedure of studying the ideologemis proposed. Ittakes into accounta corpus approach and mechanisms of profiling conceptual structures in discourse.The concept of discourse-world of information and psychological waris introduced. It isdefinedas a conceptually complex representation structure that forms the idea of global confrontation of foreign policy opponents.It is argued that discourse-world of information and psychological warserves as background, against which the new ideologem is profiled.The results of the research can be useful for further development of linguistic bases of counteraction to information and psychological threats in the media sphere.