LINGUISTICS OF INFORMATION-PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR: on SUBSTANTIATION AND DEFINITION OF THE TERM
The article substantiates the distinguishing of linguistics of information-psychological war as a special scientific area, connected with the study of language and speech technologies of information-psychological confrontation. The authors define the urgency, object field, methodological principles and problems of this area, its basic terminological apparatus with the help of the analytical-descriptive method. The article argues the inter-disciplinary character of information-psychological war as an object of research and proposes its most general definition. Particular attention is paid to the problem of definition of the basic notions of linguistics of information-psychological war (such as subject, actor, object, target, strategies, tactics, information weapons, etc.) and the need to search for the criteria for qualification of texts as belonging to the discourse of information-psychological war. The article designates speech areas in which information-psychological war takes place and some genre preferences of its actors and provides illustrative material (pamphlet, satirical article, review, and such small-scale comic genres as political anecdote, political poem, and satirical comment). It is noted that nowadays information-psychological war goes beyond the scope of publicistic speech and is carried out in advertising, diplomatic and even fiction texts. The development of linguistics of information-psychological war would promote the creation of technology of opposition of information-psychological aggression against Russia, training of specialists in the sphere of information security of individual person and society and mutual enrichment of humanitarian sciences such as philosophy, psychology, history and culturology.