Media narrative about War

Abstract

The article is devoted to The Second World War (The Great Patriotic War) media interdiscourse, which is narrative, dialogical, polyphonical. The theoretical materials are the works of M. M. Bakhtin and M. N. Kozhina about polyphony and dialogicality of the text; B. A. Uspensky, poetics of composition; G. Genette on narrative strategies; A. Nünning about “context-oriented” narratology; John Pier of “discourse-oriented” narratology, as well as the works of modern researchers — L. R. Duskaeva, V. N. Suzdaltzeva, I. V. Annenkova, etc. This reseach is based on such terms as narrative format, text type. Some manipulative strategies of creating media discourse are also covered in this article — among them are interpretation of facts, their ideological and axiological framing, pair with low motives, a conceptual design of symbols and allegories, etc. There are also marked such common typological features of media texts as dialogicality, multimediality, creolization. They have such qualities as polycodeness, anthropocentricity, that is, the texts reflect the characteristics of the author’s worldview, interpretation of events. They are targeted not to an average citizen, but at least to a representative of particular stratum, a personality. Modern media texts about the war also have such categorical quality of media discourse as an evaluation.