On the Issue of “(not) decent” Linguistic Form in the Public Information Space
https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2021-20-6-278-289
Abstract
The article justifies the advantages of using the additional criterion of “respectable precedence” for an objective assessment of the linguistic form used in the media discourse, according to the parameter “decent / indecent”. The authors, referring to the data of modern research, notice the lack of a common understanding and unambiguous definition of indecent vocabulary, highlight the objective and subjective factors that complicate the solution of this problem, emphasize those features of the media text that make the concept of “(not) decent” linguistic form very relative. The criterion proposed by the authors takes into account the practice of using a controversial linguistic unit in respectable public communication and relies on representative data of electronic text corpora, which makes it possible to verify the results of linguistic analysis. The article presents the outcomes of expert assessment of vocabulary with negative connotation using the above-mentioned criterion.
About the Authors
S. G. Pavlov
Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University of Kozma Minin;
National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language and Culture of Speech;
Associate professor of the Departmentof Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,
Nizhny Novgorod
N. E. Petrova
Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University of Kozma Minin
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Russian Language and Culture of Speech,
Nizhny Novgorod
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Pavlov S.G., Petrova N.E. On the Issue of “(not) decent” Linguistic Form in the Public Information Space. Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology. 2021;20(6):278-289. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2021-20-6-278-289
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