Abstract
The article investigates the examples of verbal aggression manifestations in publicistic texts that assess the modern broadcasting practice and the content of the main Russian television companies, "Literaturnaya gazeta", one of the popular weekly periodicals in Russia. In each issue of this newspaper, several articles were published with an assessment of the quality of television broadcasts. Having studied the archives of "Literaturnaya gazeta" issues (260 in total) for the period of 2012-2016, we found 842 articles containing both positive and negative evaluations of TV shows, the work of the TV show hosts and the trends of modern federal television broadcasting. Using the methods of "Literaturnaya gazeta" continuous monitoring, a quantitative and a content analysis of its articles and the comparison of the articles of television critics published in different years, we found out that a large part of the analyzed articles, the thing was about television programs and famous persons taking part in them. Having analyzed the style of information presentation in the publications of television critics of "Literaturnaya gazeta", we found out that verbal aggression over the chronological period of the research was one of the frequently used methods to develop a negative public opinion about the practice of the main Russian television channel functioning. In 2012-2016 this language phenomenon was applied in relation to television programs, television personalities and to characterize a social-political situation in the country where Russian television operates. We believe that the regular appeal of critics to verbal aggression testifies to the desire of "Literaturnaya gazeta" authors to influence the audience more emotionally than rationally and follow a simple path, revealing and replicating the negative.
Highlights
The purpose of the article is to identify and to study the examples of verbal aggression manifestation in the articles of the "Literaturnaya gazeta", which assess the current practice of broadcasting and the content of the main Russian television companies.Television criticism, like any other trend in journalism, is a creative activity
A negative assessment contained in 758 articles (90% of the total number of articles identified in five years) became the prevailing assessment of the article authors in relation to the quality of content of the main Russian television companies
We found only 59 (7%) and 25 (3%) articles which did not contain a predominant evaluation of a critic in relation to the content of the programs or the work of their creative team
Summary
The purpose of the article is to identify and to study the examples of verbal aggression manifestation in the articles of the "Literaturnaya gazeta", which assess the current practice of broadcasting and the content of the main Russian television companies.Television criticism, like any other trend in journalism, is a creative activity. The purpose of the article is to identify and to study the examples of verbal aggression manifestation in the articles of the "Literaturnaya gazeta", which assess the current practice of broadcasting and the content of the main Russian television companies. Its subject is specific: "the current multi-faceted social functioning of modern TV companies of different levels" (Korochensky, 2004). This work is related with an assessment development concerning the quality of television programs, the effectiveness of media text impact on the audience, the conformity of television content level to the expectations and the requests of viewers, etc. We believe that tv critics is designed for a sympathetic audience that can think, learn, listen to someone else's opinion, be able to argue, and has an artistic and aesthetic taste.
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