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Denisova G.S., Denisova A.V. [Evaluation of liberal discourse by South Russian students within the framework of building Russian identity] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2018, Vol. 9, No. 4. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/03SCSK418.pdf (in Russian).

Evaluation of liberal discourse by South Russian students within the framework of building Russian identity

Denisova Galina Sergeyevna
Southern federal university, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Denisova Anastasia Valeryevna
Southern federal university, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Abstract. Implementing the freedom of information laws in Russia provides an active discussion of domestic and foreign policy in the media sources falling into various sides of the political spectrum. Large-scale events aimed at strengthening all-Russian unity are subjected to criticism in liberal discourse. Students constitute a substantial share liberal media target audience. It directly explains the need for studying how liberal discourse influences the formation of Russian identity among students. In the article, the authors investigate the students’ perception of liberal political satire, namely popular opuses from the Grazhdanin poet (“Citizen Poet”) project created as a response to the worldwide known doping scandal. The empirical data were collected by means of content analysis of students’ essays in Southern and North-Caucasian universities. The article specifies the focus of the project’s authoring team, namely to announce the truth about current events to the audience. The object of students’ evaluation are the main ideas and evaluation of the event in satirical poems, emotional impact the poems make on the reader, identifying the authors’ general orientation. Students’ essays were analyzed by means of structuring the narration, which allows to highlight the essence and “hear the voices” of the respondents. The analysis of the collected material demonstrates that the considerable part of provincial student community perceived these works in a wider context, as a tool to criticize the state’s political vector. The majority of students did not regard the writing team’s viewpoint as constructive criticism based on empathy to Russia. The lexical units used in the poems were treated as pieces of hate speech aimed at insulting the sense of national dignity.

Keywords: liberal discourse; political satire; Russian identity; doping; social solidarity; students; hate speech

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