Psycholinguistic Analysis of Information Support of Ukrainian Crisis in German Mass Media

© Media Watch 8 (1) 100-106, 2017
ISSN 0976-0911 e-ISSN 2249-8818
DOI: 10.15655/mw/2017/v8i1/41266
 

Psycholinguistic Analysis of Information Support of Ukrainian Crisis in German Mass Media

ALEXANDR Y. PETUKHOV & POLINA D. IVLIEVA
Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia
 
Abstract
The current article is devoted to the linguistic analysis of the information materials of the popular German mass media covering the Ukrainian crisis in 2014. Special attention is paid to the formation of the Russian and Ukrainian images in the framework of the information-psychological confrontation through psycholinguistic processing of the text, usage of special approaches to information definition and representation. As a result of the analysis, the authors have come to conclusion that a lot of articles contain not only informational, but also propagandistic implied sense, main aim of which is to suggest readers such point of view, which corresponds to the current political line of the European Union (EU) and Germany in relation to the Ukrainian crisis and its main actors.
 
Keywords: Ukrainian crisis, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, conflicts information support, psycholinguistics
 
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Dr. Alexandr Yurevich Petukhov is an associate professor in political psychology and also head of the Modeling of Social and Political Processes Research Center at Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia. Dr. Petukhov’s research interests include information warfare, mathematical modelling and political psychology
Dr. Polina Dmitreevna Ivlieva is a senior lecturer in the department of the Foreign linguistics at Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University. Russia. Dr. Ivlieva’s research areas are psycholinguistics, German mass media and information wars