Author: MIKHAYLINA T.I.
Communicology. 2016. v.4, n.3
Mikhaylina Tatiana Igorevna, PhD in Pedagogics (Candidate of Pedagogic Science), a freelance translator, teacher of English.
Abstract: The article focuses on the relationship between language and politics. Political events are not simply described; they can be constructed by linguistic means. Precise nomination may be sacrificed for political expediency creating ambiguity of political discourse. The latter becomes an object of conscious control, an ideological vehicle, creating substitute reality. Ideological features of political texts influence collective and individual thinking. Having acquired a national political mindset, translators in the course of political translation come face to face with a different narrative. Their task is to look beyond the linguistic shell of the word into its real meaning, to discern behind the façade of words the mechanisms of political discourse, to make explicit meanings while avoiding interference into the author’s evaluation of events.
Keywords: political discourse, political language, Orwell, worldview, narrative, ambiguity, nomination, manipulation
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Communicology. 2016. v.4, n.3
Mikhaylina Tatiana Igorevna, PhD in Pedagogics (Candidate of Pedagogic Science), a freelance translator, teacher of English.
Abstract: The article focuses on the relationship between language and politics. Political events are not simply described; they can be constructed by linguistic means. Precise nomination may be sacrificed for political expediency creating ambiguity of political discourse. The latter becomes an object of conscious control, an ideological vehicle, creating substitute reality. Ideological features of political texts influence collective and individual thinking. Having acquired a national political mindset, translators in the course of political translation come face to face with a different narrative. Their task is to look beyond the linguistic shell of the word into its real meaning, to discern behind the façade of words the mechanisms of political discourse, to make explicit meanings while avoiding interference into the author’s evaluation of events.
Keywords: political discourse, political language, Orwell, worldview, narrative, ambiguity, nomination, manipulation
Text: PDF
