Abstract
The study examines the concept of just war in the military-political discourse and technologies of manipulating the mass consciousness used by the leaders of the Russian and American states in speeches based on the idea of just war. Lexical and semantic analysis of the lexemes “just” and “war” in Russian and English is carried out. The relevance of the study is determined by the increasing attention to the military-political discourse and actualization of the concept. It received consistent substantiation and development in the works of medieval scholastics. In the 21st century, it serves the purposes of moral and ethical justification of modern military conflicts. The purpose of the study was to analyze the concept of just war at the lexical and semantic level and describe its ontological foundations and implementation in the Russian and American mental lexicons. Based on the analysis, the authors have identified general and particular aspects of the just war concept in the Russian and American mental lexicons and described the mechanisms of mind control in the political discourses of B. Obama and V.V. Putin.
Highlights
Speech products are the result of the discursive activity of a linguistic personality and thinking: “At the same time, they allow to talk...˃ about the hidden processes of their linguistic consciousness, which constitute the peculiarity of the discursive thinking of Homo loquens” [1, 2]
The study was based on the materials of the Russian National Corpus and Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
The contexts are categorized into three groups: 1. Just war theory: criticism of just war postulates, just war doctrine, just war norms and standards, followers of just war theory, tradition, arguments, demands
Summary
I. Kant revolutionized philosophy in the 18th century by placing man in the center of the universe. Russian and foreign linguists and philosophers of the second half of the 20th century, with the development of anthropocentric linguistics, placed discourse in the center of the universe next to man. Homo loquens realizes itself in speech activity, the products of which are speech or texts. Quoting K.F. Sedov, speech products are the result of the discursive activity of a linguistic personality and thinking: “At the same time, they allow to talk...˃ about the hidden (latent) processes of their linguistic consciousness, which constitute the peculiarity of the discursive thinking of Homo loquens” [1, 2]
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