Features of information psychological war in translated fiction

Abstract

The article raises the question of the involvement of modern foreign fiction, offered to the Russian reader in the translation into Russian, to the phenomenon of information psychological war. The conditions of selection of the material for analysis are the same as in the previous publications of the author based on the material of Russian literature (see the electronic journal “Ecology of language and communicative practice” 2015, no 2; 2016, no 1; 2017, no3,4; 2018, no 1; 2019, no 1). The method of solving the problem is linguoideological analysis for the features/symptoms of information psychological war. The dominant targets are the aggressiveness of the Russian foreign policy; the results of the Second World War; the mentality of the Russian people (traditional laziness, theft, drunkenness, physical and moral incleanliness). A natural question is whether it is necessary to translate and print, and therefore, to popularize the foreign works that form and convey a negative, namely, totally negative image of our country. There is a complete coincidence of the dominant features and the totally negative vector of evaluation in the discursive practices of information psychological war in the studied Russian and translated texts. A paradoxical situation: some modern Russian writers create no less negative image of Russia in its present and historical perspective than foreign authors: the author is ours, a stereotype is the others’