Emotional and receptive-axiological aspects of the speech act of threat in everyday conflict communication in Russian
The article analyses the emotive aspect of the production and perception of the speech act of threat and the specificity of the perception of this act by a modern native speaker of Russian. The act of threat is an instrument of influence exerted on the listener. Its effectiveness depends on the strength of the negative emotions of anxiety, fear,...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... retrospective method are used, necessary to understand the motives for the decisions taken by Finland and Sweden, as well as studying the role of the main external players (primarily the United States). Likewise, the key factors shaping the challenges and threats that Russia faces in light of these events are analyzed. Finally, possible scenarios for the development of the situation and Russia’s reaction are built.
The study draws on a wide range of Russian and foreign authors who trace the evolution ...
The linguistic-pragmatic features of the realization of speech acts of threat in the political discourses of Germany and Spain
The threat is one of the most effective ways to influence an interlocutor’s behavior because it directly affects his or her personal interests. Depending on the context, a threat may take various forms, which can be at odds with the traditional idea ...
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
Economic sanctions and countersanctions are expanding worldwide, posing spatially heterogeneous threats to most countries. The study aims to develop and test a methodology for assessing regional exposure to sanctions risks using Russian data. The share of foreign trade with the countries that introduced restrictions can be used to evaluate the exposure ...
On the speech-act nature of the verbal threat.
In this article, we describe approaches to studying the verbal threat, which exist in the recent Russian and international research literature. We examine the essence of the verbal threat from the perspective of speech act theory. We identify the major content-related components of utterances containing threats ...
Functional and semantic aspects of threat in requestive speech acts (based on the Soviet and Russian feature films)
... cinematography reflects the cultural and mental state of any nation as well as the state of its language. Based on the analysis of the fragments of the Soviet and contemporary Russian films, the author determines the role and purpose of the requestive threat as a speech act, and identifies the composition and role of various components of requestive threat speech acts as a type. Requestive speech acts are a means of indirectly derived expression of a corresponding meaning.
1. Крючкова Г....
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... postpositivism) and theoretical approaches to the concept of societal security formulated in them. On a practical plane, Russia has managed to develop — together with other regional players — a common regional approach to understanding societal security threats and challenges in the Baltic Sea region. These challenges include uneven regional development, social and gender inequalities, unemployment, poverty, manifestations of intolerance, religious and political extremism, separatism, large-scale migration,...
Geopolitical security of contemporary Russia: essence, structure, fundamentals of monitoring
The article examines the essence of the geopolitical security phenomenon, studies the specifics of the geopolitical security of modern Russia. The main threats and vulnerabilities affecting the current state of Russia’s geopolitical security are highlighted. The author determines necessity, content and structure of the process of monitoring the geopolitical security of our country. As a part of monitoring ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... these countries.
As a result, this study compares Danish and Swedish models for countering the processes of segregation of immigrant areas. The article pays special attention to ethnic and religious factors in the formation of immigrant enclaves as a threat to national cohesion and territorial integrity of welfare states. The study examines the prospects for the continuity of the radical Danish approach to countering the ghettoization by the Swedish liberal political system based on the cultural diversity ...
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
... NATO, an already planned increase in military contingent in the Baltic States in 2023, and the development of the European Political Community project. The author concludes that even if France’s presence in the Baltic does not yet pose a critical threat to Russian security, Paris’s policy is becoming more pro-Atlantic to the detriment of previous statements about ‘European sovereignty’ and dialogue with Russia.
Introduction
Recently, the Baltic region as a comprehensive security complex ...
Communication of Covid-19 consequences in the Baltic States inforsphere
This article seeks to describe the dynamics of Covid-19 in the Baltic States and to analyse the ways of communicating the threat and its consequences. Particular attention is paid to the media strategies pursued in the study area. The research is based on Russian and English texts from the Baltic media, WHO official documents and datasets, as well as initiatives of the Baltic ...
Security in the Baltic region as a Projection of Global Confrontation between Russia and the USA
.... The US strategy in the Baltic region does not seek an open military conflict with Russia. On the contrary, the US strives to preserve the current level of confrontation between Russia and the EU, convincing the latter of the reality of the Russian threat. Countries that traditionally support confrontation with Russia, Poland and the Baltics, serve as a conduit for Washington strategy in Europe and a cordon sanitaire. This function is implemented through the Intermarium project meant to separate ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
...
— one of the six NATO members that provided military contingents for deployment in Southern Afghanistan in 2006;
— one of the eight NATO members involved in the bombing of Libya in 2011;
— the only country except France to have supported the US threat of airstrikes in Syria in 2013;
— one of the six NATO members to have participated in airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq in 2014—2015 and in Iraq and Syria in 2016;
— one of the few participants in the ground operation in Syria in 2017 that ...
Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... analysis when measuring the degree of expansionism. From the 1970s, strategic culture was understood as a certain degree of subjectivity in reacting to external factors. In most cases, this concerned military-political issues: the problems, risks and threats a state sees as imminent; the existing security beliefs and discussions; the terms and categories deemed adequate to describe the external environment [5, p. 7—9]. Strategic culture in a narrow sense was believed to have three components — ...
Legal framework for national security as a basis for preventing and combating criminal threats
This article explores current legal problems of national security in view of the need to improve the system of prevention of, and counteraction to, criminal threats. The author provides relevant statistics on crimes committed in Russia, analyses cause-effect relations behind the deterioration of national crime situation, and suggests integrated solutions to the most complex problems in the field.
1. О ...
Cyberbullying, a new threat to adolescents’ personal security
This article focuses on the issue of psychological violence among adoles-cents, in particular, on the problem of bullying. A new threat to psychological security of teenagers – cyberbullying – is identified. The authors believe that, going through fundamental personality transformations, adolescents are espe-cially vulnerable to psychological violence. The article analyses ...
Contemporary threats to the growth of rationality in the Russian society
This article considers the conflicting conditions of growth of rationality in the modern Russian society, identifies threats relating to the key trends in world community development, Russian science and education, and personality transformations.
1. Андреев А. Л. Общество и образование: социокультурный профиль России ...
The US ballistic missile defence policy in the Baltic and Nordic regions
... region and Nordic countries will inevitably destabilize the strategic situation and may lead to a new round of arms race in the region. The efficacy of BMD in Europe is evaluated from the perspective of military technology. The system’s potential threats to Russia’s military security and its armed forces are assessed. The article considers measures to enhance national security that could be taken by Russia provided the US plans to deploy BMD in Europe are fully implemented.
1. Arbatov, А....
The EU Vs. Russia: Legal Nature and Implementation of the Union’s Restrictive Measures
The author proposes his take on the EU sanctions against Russia. He aims to understand the legal nature of the EU restrictions, the exact procedure of their implementation, revision, and repeal, as well as their judicial review. To this end, he proposes a system of sanction classification, analyses current EU legislation on the imposition and implementation of sanctions, as well as the case law on the sanction policy. The author also examines EU sanctions imposed on other countries and compares them...
Information and propaganda strategies in German non-state media discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic
... measures and maintaining a sufficient level of trust in the government to make society comply with the imposed restrictions;
— the established dependency between the search for information about COVID-19 in the media and the perception of the virus as a threat to health [11].
The aim of this research is to analyze the strategies that support the biopolitical practices of the German government to preserve the health and life of the population, and the techniques implemented in the discourse of non-state ...
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... conceptual framework and a geopolitical security model as a prerequisite for the system. The discussion also covered other relevant issues, including the definition of geopolitical security and geopolitical space as well as the types of geopolitical threats and vulnerabilities. Another topic on the agenda was the analysis of theoretical approaches applicable to monitoring the geopolitical security in Russia. A constructivist approach based on discursive practices was viewed as the most promising ...
Language markers of terrorist-colored text and methods for their identification
A terrorist-colored text (T-text) can be understood as a piece of speech containing specific linguistic elements denoting a terrorist threat, according to the features of which it is possible to identify not only the socially dangerous content of the utterance, but also to evaluate the degree of its impact. The archive of the dataset of the extremist website “Kavkaz” banned in the ...
Argumentum ad morti in the violence discourse: the semantics and pragmatics of ‘radical’ argumentation
... credibility of requests, wishes, etc., or blocks communication. The illocutionary power of the appeal to death is determined by the means it uses, which range from inductive generalisation and deductions to approaching the limit of this generalisation, to the threat of going beyond the existential boundaries of the discourse, to the problem domain losing its existential status, and to the threat being carried out. All of them make communication insignificant and the subject, or even the opponent, non-existent....
Economic security of a border region: quantitative and qualitative measurements (the case of the Rostov region)
... all-Russia economic indicators, as well as the average indicators of Russia's western border regions and the Krasnodar Krai, reveals a growing competition between regions in the economically prosperous South-West of Russia. The study identified the main threats caused by both the geoeconomic situation and its projection onto the intra-regional environment. These threats aggravated system-wide economic problems.
Gorochnaya V.V.
regional economic security, Rostov region, Western Russian borderline,...
Cloud Service Analysis of Operating Systems and Applications
The presence of a large number of vulnerabilities in modern operating systems and software that pose a threat to information security determines the need to study them when training specialists in the field of information security. The article discusses the principles of building a software and hardware complex based on the joint use of cloud and virtualization ...
Intellektuelle Anschauung und philosophische Schwärmerei. Kant und die Aufklärung des philosophierenden Subjekts
... criticism of philosophical enthusiasm (“Schwärmerei”). For Kant intellectual intuition (“intellektuelle Anschauung”) serves in case of philosophical enthusiasm as a reason for the justification of philosophical knowledge. This determination is a threat for his project of enlightenment, because it entices the philosophizing subject to contradict the maxim of self-thinking. In order to show the link between Kant’s criticism of the concept of intellectual intuition and his claim of the enlightenment ...
The development of science as a factor in the Kaliningrad region innovative security
The paper examines the role of research institutions in the system of innovation security of the region and highlights vital interests and security threats to the regional innovation system in the field of research. The author describes important factors having a positive and a negative impact on the competitiveness of the research component of the innovation system of the region. The evaluation ...
On crisis trends in the legitimacy of the political regimes of the Baltic States
... the national party systems. Special attention is paid to compensatory mechanisms used by political elites to ‘artificially’ reproduce legitimacy. It makes sense to analyse the deficit of legitimacy in the Baltic States not only in the context of threats to democratic institutions but also considering weaknesses of public institutions and insufficient resources to ensure stateness. This requires developing a hypothesis about smaller states ‘importing’ legitimacy from larger states and intergovernmental ...
A semiotic approach to construction of information systems in the field of security
The paper is devoted to issues of semiotic approach for the design of information security systems, based on knowledge extraction from semistructured sources. The problems of developing of optimal variants for the prevention of threats to decision support systems. The technique continuous monitoring of text messages, identify the events and situations and develop scenarios possible development of crisis situations is proposed.
1. Стратегия национальной ...
Dependence on imported food as a threat to the food security of the Kaliningrad region
This article considers the problem of food security in the case of the Kaliningrad region. The key threat to regional food security is the increasing dependence on import. It is proved that the region’s food security can be ensured through self-sufficiency.
1. ВТО-ИНФОРМ. Аналитический центр. URL: http://wto-inform.ru/upload/ ...
On ensuring the energy security of the Kaliningrad region
This article analyses possibilities for minimising energy threats to the economy of the Kaliningrad region — an isolated Russian exclave. The au-thors consider the key aspects of the region’s economic security, identify threats, and provide a critical assessment different solutions to this problems. The ...
On the new habitats of Gypsophila paniculata L. in the Kaliningrad region
This article offers data on the new cenopopulation of Gypsophila paniculata L. discovered in the Kaliningrad Region, its structure and current state.
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3. Конспект сосудистых растений Калининградской...
The justification of legal punishment in Kant’s philosophy
... of the Metaphysics of Morals / transl. by M. Gregor. Cambridge, 1998.
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ethics, morality, punishment, retributivism, categorical imperative, united will, antinomy
Aronson D.
50-58
10.5922/0207-6918-2013-3-5
[text]1. Bekker G. Chelovecheskoe ...
The externalisation of migration control in the European Union: first steps towards the external dimension of the space of freedom, security and justice
... the theoretical postulates introduced by the scholars of the Paris School, a school within the discipline of security studies that conceptualized the connection between migration, terrorism, asylum, crime and ethnic clashes, and its role as a major threat facing the European Union. Externalization of this complex threat (that is, externalization in relation to the European Union) is thus seen as one of the key prerequisites to advancement of migration management activities beyond the EU (i. e. externalization ...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... the territory by an international consortium, etc. One of the articles, on one hand, discusses the region’s participation in several European cooperation networks and, on the other, groundlessly depicts the territory as a possible tool for creating threats to other states of the Baltic Sea region (see [6] for a detailed analysis).
Polish researchers have made a noticeable contribution to the study of transboundary ties. Prof. Tadeusz Palmowski of the University of Gdansk provided a theoretical framework ...
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... sanctions on Russia’s spatial development, the response of Russian maritime transport to these sanctions, and the adaptation measures taken. It also evaluates the performance of Russian Baltic ports between 2022 and 2023, assessing the long-term risks and threats to their development and exploring the potential for maritime transport growth in the Baltic region under the current circumstances.
Cooperation with Europe as the main priority of Russia’s post-Soviet foreign economic policy
. During ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... historical events, Gumilyov persistently and very correctly suggested “seeking friends, not enemies” [28, p. 45].
For the establishment of new vectors of Russia’s geopolitical and geo-economic development, the tracking of the dynamics of geopolitical threats and the creation of a system for monitoring the geopolitical (regional) security of Russia are of paramount importance [29].
Within this geopolitical context, I look into the development of three Baltic (Baltic Sea-facing) regions of Russia—St....
Language indicators of confrontational speech strategies used in everyday marital discourse
... the poem "Dialogue at the Television" by V. S. Vysotsky served as material for observation, representing a vivid example of role lyrics.
The research established that the discreditation strategy is implemented through speech tactics of threat, accusation, reproach, request, appeals to authority, and appeals to precedent. The analysis resulted in the identification of typical linguistic indicators that shape specific confrontational speech tactics.
Zakurdaeva N.V.
confrontational ...
Kant als metaphilosophischer Skeptizist?
... Gründe und Implikationen philosophischer Vielfalt. Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann.
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Tetens, H., 2001. Der Streit der Philosophen. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 49(3), S. 353-366.
Williamson, T., 2007. The Philosophy of Philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Wittgenstein, L., 1953. Philosophische ...
Methods of combating hogweed (Heracleum spondylium) and the possibility of their application in the Kaliningrad region
The study deals with the problem of the hogweed thickets spread and ways to solve this issue. Initially, hogweed was grown in the USSR for livestock feed, but it grew uncontrollably and became a threat to the local flora and humans. The study describes a variety of control methods for hogweed, including chemical, electrochemical, and mechanical methods, as well as grazing and mulching. The methods have been evaluated and compared, and it is suggested ...
Conflictogenicity of digital communication forms in the aspect of linguistic security (on the comments on blogs of the Yandex-Zen platform)
... etc. Within the framework of hating, trolling and elfing, some linguo-conflictogenic elements of discourse that can be avoided in network communication were identified and described. It is concluded that the use of non-normative language units poses a threat to network communication from the linguistic security point of view. Meanwhile, the authors propose some measures to prevent the potential for conflict in digital communication, and outline the prospect of further research in the field of linguistic ...
Media images of the Kaliningrad region in the structure of migration attitudes of millennials and the reform generation
... infrastructure, and a tourist destination. The most substantial intergenerational differences concern the media images of a military outpost and an economically attractive area. Members of the reform generation are more likely than millennials to see a military threat and consider the security aspect when moving. Millennials showed greater awareness of what constitutes the image of an economically attractive region. It is concluded that differences between millennials and the reform generation in evaluating ...
Tool-Kit for Ethical Analysis of Video Games: Answer to the Challenges of the New Enlightenment
... Enlightenment”, Ernst von Weizsäcker and Anders Wijkman, in their 2018 report to the Club of Rome analyse the causes of the explosive development of science and technology in the Modern period and come to the conclusion that their triumph and existential threats stem in many ways from the ideals of Enlightenment, so that the future of humankind depends crucially on an ideological rethinking of man’s status in the world. They stress the need to enhance the responsibility of the individual so that each ...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... ill-considered foreign policy based on historical fears on its economic connections with Russia” [32, p. 82]. Thus, the eastern voivodeships will continue to deteriorate demographically, economically, and socially. The “fight against the Russian threat”, which is the basis of the foreign policy of the current PiS government, creates more problems for Poland than for Russia. As strange as it may sound in the current situation, Poland is more interested in the destruction of its “eastern wall” ...
Conceptualizing emotions through discourse: a pragmatic view on the reader's interest
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Ozyumenko, V. I. and Larina, T. V., 2021. Threat and fear: Pragmatic purposes of emotionalisation in media discourse. Russian Journal of Linguistics, 25 (3), pp. 746—766,
https://doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-2021-25-3-746-766
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Piotrovskaya, L., 2009. Description, Expression and Reflection ...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
... leadership. It is concluded that, despite the visibility of socioeconomic issues in the discourse, the most comprehensive image of Estonian ‘Balticness’ is constructed by interconnected narratives built around the Soviet past and the ‘security threats’ associated with Russia. The theoretical framework of regionalism, which allows one to consider the Baltics as a social construct rather than a set of material factors, provides an additional explanatory model.
Introduction and literature ...
The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
The article analyses the Polish political system and the increasing role of two political parties in it. This tendency has been observed in Poland for more than 15 years. We can draw a conclusion that two-and-a-half-party system has formed in Poland. Using Duverger’s phrasing, there is a “two-party tendency” in the functioning of the Polish model. The study analyses the facts that firm up this conclusion: not only the distribution of seats in the Sejm (the main criterion) but also many other...
The image of Russia as a result of a political conjuncture, or The Metamorphosis of Abbé de Pradt
... superiority, characteristic of post-Napoleonic France, and the view of Russia as a power was never strong as it looked, remained an invariable feature of his works.
Tanshina N.P.
Abbé de Pradt, France, image of Russia, imagology, “Russian threat”, “Russian expansionism”, Russophobia, stereotypes of mutual perception
33-45
10.5922/sikbfu-2022-4-4
The transformation of the Baltic countries’ political elites: general and specific features
... political divides in Baltic societies. These rifts limit competition between power groups and reduce the ability of political systems to renew themselves. Having reached the ‘back to the West’ goal, Baltic elites replaced it with the idea of ‘Russian threat’. Bridging internal divides, which may weaken the power of the elites, was postponed as a result.
Smirnov V. A.
10.5922/2079-8555-2020-3-2
26-39
elites, power groups, Baltic States, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, transformation, Russia
Attractiveness of the Kaliningrad region: pull factors and reasons for disappointments of migrants from Russian regions
... edinstva [Russian-Ukrainian borderland: twenty years of divided unity], Novyi Khronograf, p. 162—180 (in Russ.).
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