Petukhov A.Yu., Ivlieva P.D. Psycholinguistic analysis of the media coverage of the Ukrainian crisis within German mass media throughout 2014

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the analysis of the information materials from the popular German mass media on the Ukrainian crisis throughout 2014 from the perspective of psycholinguistics. A special attention is given to the formation of images of Russia and Ukraine within the framework of information-psychological confrontation using psycholinguistic processing of the text, use of special approaches and strategies for determining and delivering information. The relevance of this topic is substantiated by the significant increase in information and psychological confrontation between Western Europe and the United States on one hand, and Russia on the other. As the result of the analysis, the authors come to a conclusion that many articles contain not only informational subtext, but a propagandistic one as well, called to instill a point of view among readers that will correspond with the current foreign policy of the EU and Germany pertaining to the Ukrainian crisis and its key players.

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