1L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan
2Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University, Russia
3Pyatigorsk State University, Russia
4Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Russia
5Southern Federal University, Russia
*Correspondence to: Dana O. Baigozhina, Department of TV, Radio and Public Relations, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, 010000, 2 Satpayev Str., Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Online published on 15 October, 2020.
The cultivation of political fears of the state and radical change of attitudes in the minds of people is possible in certain socio-political and economic conditions and massive propaganda in the mass media. The concept of political fear is insufficiently studied in psycholinguistics. This article is dedicated to exploring the political fears of the state in the modern American mass media. This research uses hypothetical-deductive and inductive methods, methods of definitional, interpretative and subjective analysis, and content analysis. It is found that in the modern American mass media, political fear of the state is revealed in fear of war and competition. To verbalize the horror of war and struggle, politicians in power use various tactics of agonal function as the main means of impact on opponents.
International politics, Media discourse, State tactics, Fear, War, American media, Psycholinguistics
