Функционирование психотерапевтических терминов в русскоязычном интернет-дискурсе

Abstract

The aim of this article is to reveal the features of the functioning of psychotherapeutic terms in everyday communication, in particular in the Internet texts and statements, the authors of which are ordinary people, non-professionals in the field of psychology and psychotherapy, to determine their role in non-scientific discourse and to find semantic shifts in their meanings. The scientific novelty of the study is as follows: for the first time, the nature of semantic shifts is described when using popular psychological and psychotherapeutic terms in the non-scientific Internet communications, their functional load is determined and discursive factors of actualization of terms from the field of psychology and psychiatry in non-specialist communication are identified. The results obtained have shown that scientific terms from the field of psychology retain the semantic core adopted in science in everyday speech but acquire emotions, personifications and some other features.