DISCOURSES AND EPISTEMS AS CONTEXTS OF THE DISPERSION OF “NEWSPEAK” (BASED ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF M. FOUCAULT)

Abstract

The purpose of the study. In this article, the philosophical concept of Michel Foucault, summarizing the main stages of his work (archaeological, genealogical, the period of aesthetics of existence), is extrapolated to the genesis and manifestation of “newspeak” - an ideological language that constructs socio-political reality and simultaneously interprets. Conclusions. The variety of author’s concepts presented in Foucault’s works should be considered interrelated. Foucault’s works (primarily “Words and things”, “The archaeology of knowledge”, “To supervise and punish”, “Intellectuals and power”, “The will to truth: Beyond knowledge, power and sexuality”) they became the basis for the development of the methodology and methodology of discourse studies. The stylistics and specifics of the examples cited by Foucault, his conceptual model can be used for the socio-philosophical understanding of “newspeak” through the concepts of “discourse”, “episteme”, “discursive practice”, “panopticon”, etc. Taking into account the development of the processes of informatization and medialization, “newspeak” should be interpreted in several dimensions (subcultural language, artificial language, ideological language, which Foucault’s conceptual approach can encompas.