Sintserov L.L. —
Techniques of manipulation in the articles of the newspaper The New York Times
// History magazine - researches. – 2022. – ¹ 3.
– P. 33 - 42.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0609.2022.3.38219
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/hsmag/article_38219.html
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Abstract: The subject of this article is manipulation techniques used by journalists of one of the most authoritative newspaper (The New York Times) in order to create an image of the USSR during the Perestroika period. The purpose of the article is to show the potential of the publications of The New York Times, which captured the image of Perestroika in the USSR. The article discusses such manipulative techniques as stereotepization, information selection, fabrication of facts, and so on. In addition, this article shows how language techniques – periphrasis, antithesis, hyperbole can be used to manipulate readers' opinions. The research includes articles of the newspaper 1987-1991 devoted to the events in the Baltic States, the activities of M. S. Gorbachev, B. N. Yeltsin, A.D. Sakharov. The analysis shows how the methods of affirmation and repetition allow the readers of the newspaper to form geopolitical ideas about the Baltic states, methods of stereotyping, mixing fact and opinion help to create stable images of politicians and public figures of the period of Perestroika, and cliched formulas fix the image of the USSR leadership in the minds of readers. The study of language techniques resorted to by the authors of the publication makes it possible to identify the implicit meanings contained in the texts of publications. The correlation of the created image and manipulation technique revealed in this article can be extrapolated to a fairly wide field of application – the study of the press as a source. The publications of The New York Times are considered for the first time from the point of view of manipulative techniques that contribute to the creation of the image of the USSR during the Perestroika period.