Linguistic ridicule as a reflection of the confrontation between the political power and society
This paper presents the words, collocations, and expressions which have been announced as winners of the Word of the Year contest, held on an annual basis in Russia for the last 12 years. Taken together, all these lexical units allow us to draw conclusions about some current trends in the modern-day...
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2021-04-01
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| author | Alla Vladimirovna Kornienko |
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| description | This paper presents the words, collocations, and expressions which have been announced as winners of the Word of the Year contest, held on an annual basis in Russia for the last 12 years. Taken together, all these lexical units allow us to draw conclusions about some current trends in the modern-day Russian public discourse, namely its explicit politicization, increased emotionality, and the use of word play in an indirect dialogue with the political authorities. The inner meaning of word play, which is particularly widespread in social networks, represents the users’ critical attitude, aiming to undermine conventional values through ridicule. Illustrative examples reflecting the views of the Facebook community (winners of the “Word of the Year”) are cited in the paper. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4514d208324e4084a9bf05286ab30cd32022-12-21T20:31:57ZengCracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language StudiesThe European Journal of Humour Research2307-700X2021-04-019110.7592/EJHR2021.9.1.Kornienko442Linguistic ridicule as a reflection of the confrontation between the political power and societyAlla Vladimirovna Kornienko0Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian FederationThis paper presents the words, collocations, and expressions which have been announced as winners of the Word of the Year contest, held on an annual basis in Russia for the last 12 years. Taken together, all these lexical units allow us to draw conclusions about some current trends in the modern-day Russian public discourse, namely its explicit politicization, increased emotionality, and the use of word play in an indirect dialogue with the political authorities. The inner meaning of word play, which is particularly widespread in social networks, represents the users’ critical attitude, aiming to undermine conventional values through ridicule. Illustrative examples reflecting the views of the Facebook community (winners of the “Word of the Year”) are cited in the paper.https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/496facebook discourseword of the yearridiculeindirect dialogue with authorities |
| spellingShingle | Alla Vladimirovna Kornienko Linguistic ridicule as a reflection of the confrontation between the political power and society The European Journal of Humour Research facebook discourse word of the year ridicule indirect dialogue with authorities |
| title | Linguistic ridicule as a reflection of the confrontation between the political power and society |
| title_full | Linguistic ridicule as a reflection of the confrontation between the political power and society |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Linguistic ridicule as a reflection of the confrontation between the political power and society |
| title_short | Linguistic ridicule as a reflection of the confrontation between the political power and society |
| title_sort | linguistic ridicule as a reflection of the confrontation between the political power and society |
| topic | facebook discourse word of the year ridicule indirect dialogue with authorities |
| url | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/496 |
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