The
verbal aggression in modern media
Ytzhanova Nazym
magister
of humanitarian sciences
of al-Farabi Kazakh national university
c.
Almaty, Kazakhstan
e-mail:
nazim.i.b@mail.ru
Every day, each of us hears the broadcast, reads in
the newspaper dispassionately-business phrases: "as a result of successive
sweeps the destruction of a large number of fighters....",
"...explosions again... ". These and similar sayings, referred to a
real and not a mythical person, show, on the one hand the inhumane nature of
any wars, on the other, that the daily loss of life on the planet, according to
a journalist in passing what is, unfortunately, a regular occurrence.
All the views of the person closely associated with
the word, with the words. You can use them to portray the picture of reality
and to stimulate the activities of the first alarm system, causing the reader
vivid images of that at the moment of reading, and later, often identified with
real life.
Known to survive in the new market environment and be
profitable, the MEDIA are forced to seek such remedies and forms of
presentation that can attract a mass audience.
Analysis of the texts of modern print media reveals
that along with fine-expressive means carrying out positive tasks periodically
appears quite a few publications with a negative assessment of the vocabulary,
creating negative emotions: dead body in the bushes, robbing pensioners, the
attack on the student and the like are frequent evaluation on disease metaphor
of society. Their origins date back to the idea of giving the impression that
the society living body with all of its features.
Examples of the use of this image, journalists can be
found in any newspaper: "Whether concrete measures have been taken to
improve the economy?" (Ê.); "The President has put
before us specific tasks for the resuscitation of industry" (V.);
"What is the main cause of the chronic budget deficit" (N.V.);
"It is the transportation problems play havoc with our city so much that
you want to have a serious" treatment "(N.V.);"Our ailing
economy needs real money "(K.); "Roads-sick theme ....My soul hurts,
when food ... (V.); "The situation is such that many businesses either
loans or other financial injections will not help" (K.), etc.
The desire to think freely and uninhibited voice their
thoughts, leads journalists to find expression. The metaphor is social in
nature, is part of the picture of the world, reflected in the public
consciousness. Many people know from their own experience that the caustic
comments can hurt nothing less than the physical effects. The strategy of
discrediting skillfully uses a metaphor based on sensory perception: a political flavour, the pre-election
struggle with discernible, etc. In one of the pre-election newspaper
materials read the sentence: "another lunge at the Islands against the
main enemy is over there" (A.-R.). Highlighted words
reflect the severity of the election struggle and carry a negative charge. The
noun "lunge" has the value: "hostile action against anyone
anything", and the word "enemy" means: "one who is opposed
to what Mr.., is inimical to what Mr..; enemy, adversary" [1. 116]. If you
wish not to escalate the aggressiveness of the warring parties, the author
could soften the perception and dropdown word from synonymous row,
respectively: speech, statement, opinion, etc.; the opponent, the opponent,
etc. Of course, the phrase does not appear sufficiently spicy and sensational.
But it all depends on the talent of the journalist, his skills and the desire
to avoid information warfare at the regional level.
Study of a large number of massive newspaper showed
that only a few of them go without information on the criminal theme. The only
difference is that one is limited to a brief summary of "bad news", and the other
dedicated to this theme a few strips. Even the titles of such material are
idiosyncratic. The sentence "the killers", "attack on the Bank,
"to be scattered and buried", "crash "Saransk", theatre,
almost run over by smashing ", "two", "Colonist",
"prison" in Swedish, " Ripped belly in court", " Absurdity
and murder", "murder and the sentence was upheld, not hunting and
killing" are examples of the headers only one room of a popular weekly magazine.
Let not publication specializing in criminal news, a newspaper for the general
reader. Increasingly, psychologists, researchers, MEDIA, language and style
question that use of "black" headers must be related to breaches of
professional ethics. In their view, drawing public attention to ugly phenomena
of reality, the authors teach the reader involuntarily to a daily, routine
adverse effects.
In the competition for newspaper readers are trying to
"get around" each other, inventing new forms of journalistic
materials. One of the techniques-a conscious departure from the traditional
standards of the modern literary language and is used in a variety of stylistic
purposes. Wanting to approach writing to speaking, so that it becomes more
transparent and understandable to the reader, the authors choose a manner of
communication with the reader, where there is a small irony of ironies. Often
use slang vocabulary, borrowed from the language of the criminal world and
indicating showdown, not excluding the use and brute force.
"Journalist" correspondent Oleg Kuprin arguing about the word
"disassembly", concludes: "the new word in everyday life, came
to us from slang operatives and clearly demonstrates the criminalization of our
communities" [2. 17].
Journalists can also become fashionable to use the
word "outrage", which analyses the MEDIA used in different meanings:
1) violation of the moral, legal and economic laws: "many gaps in the
legislation. People often mired in lawlessness" (K.); "What if people
see in court only the last straw in a sea of lawlessness" (A.-R.); 2)
violation of specific agreements, regulations and prohibitions social
behaviour, often a conscious or a demonstrative: "isn't outrage that money
can't get?" (À.); "The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH operates improperly. This is a
complete outrage" (N.D.); "In the language of civilized business this
is called unfair competition. And easier-lawlessness (V.); 3) Arbitrariness,
lawlessness: "Mayhem in the market going on all year" (A.-R.);
"What was happening to him in the Chamber is a mess!" (N.V.); 4) form
of physical aggression, rape, murder: "the car was racing at high speed
through the city when it directly on the sidelines flew unhappy victim of
lawlessness" (A.); "Bandit lawlessness or unprofessional death?"
(Ê.).
It is clear that, transparency, freedom of opinions,
judgments, efficiency-all these are important part of modern journalism. At the
same time, cannot but cause concern, when aspiring journalist, yesterday's
student, dispassionately describes all the details of brutal violence against
the victim, causes the creepy details of torture, killing, bloody shootouts and
dead tells the story of a murder with a degree of cynicism.
Compulsory attendance of such information in the mass
publication explains journalists increased public interest in criminal issues.
Most often the core of "exciting" materials on this topic is, sadly,
a human death. And newspapers are trying to tell the reader about them in every
dark detail.
History on delinquences often served in the press with
a touch of sentimentality, even romanticism: "last Thursday, two
19-year-old young lady friend have stayed. The hostess girl trustful, excused
myself and briefly left their apartment alone. The little ladies did not fail
to take advantage of. Fumbling in the cupboards, found and pocketed 92,000
tenge. And the next day had a serious conversation with the investigator of the
police" (N.V.).
Often such facts, details and fine detail, the authors
serves as a consequence of the interesting coincidence of circumstances, an
unexpected turn of events in the author's narrative: "drama with a pipe in
his entrance was greeted by their 40-year-old entrepreneur young stranger. It
was last Saturday. Threatening woman piece of iron, the guy took her bag. And
then ran away. But ran long. Police detained him after a couple of hours after
the crime" (N.V.).
Apparently, to make the material more
"alive", "readable", the attempt to make the kind of "everyday stories", where style,
on the idea of authors, should be exciting, like a description of the
fascinating detective stories: "Check the quality of the raspivaemogo
alcohol decided last Saturday forty-four year-old resident city dweller
Shahtinsk. In the process of absorption of the "firewater", together
with his second wife he has aged and poured the last alcohol and then lit a
match and presented it to the woman. Alcohol turned out to be extremely high
and immediately broke out. As a result of home-grown chemical-physical
experiments pensioner with numerous Burns of varying severity were hospitalized
in a local hospital" (V.).
Examples might be too cruel, but they illustrate what
may become journalism if it takes humanity, is spirituality. Using this, so
called, criminal-entertainment genre household language, vernacular and jargon
words, the authors clearly proud of their "light" style. A detailed
description of the technology crime, violence and killings, publishing close-up
photos of mutilated corpses, instrumentalities, relishing the details describing
a particular cruelty of maniacs, contributes to the increase in brutality and
aggression in society. It condemned all over the world.
In an interview to AIF Kazakhstan Bakhyt Kenzheev poet
who lives in Montreal, shares his impressions about our press: "you open a
newspaper: child-killers, drug addicts, thieves and slaves of passions of ...
On American TV in the news never shows the launch of a new blast furnace, and
show the first killings, rape and the courts, that is, the scandals of ...
However, in the post-Soviet journalism seamy side, perhaps, far more than in
the West. Some crime-reporters there and necessarily indicate lying dead.
That's not good. Children can see. On American television you will not see the
corpses littering. They are neatly covered with a bag. So it's a question of
professionalism" [4. 4].
Verbal aggression is not less dangerous than physical,
as in the word, in its figurative sense, may be latent hostility, ill will. The
concentration of "aggressive" language in the modern media, according
to psychologists, is proof of the aggressiveness of the society.
The need for a humanistic-oriented mass media activity
in question is not a nobody. One of the most famous heart surgeon Renat
Akchurin in the world writes: "need to set people on a positive footing.
What we influence on TV? Rather than attempting to describe the bus disaster in
Brazil, killing six Brazilians, it is better to send a correspondent to
regions, showed a grandfather who gave birth to a son in old age. Without such
support, the population will experience all the more and more pessimism, which
no one needs, neither the State nor the us, ordinary people" [5, 4].
One of the principles of journalistic activities,
expressed in resolution 4-th European Conference of Ministers responsible for
policies in the field of "Journalistic freedoms and human rights"
(Prague, 1994, 7-8 December), is discouraging any violence, hatred and
discrimination.
The media should help the reader navigate the
ever-changing world. The media should help people to hear each other.
Journalism must be humane.
Sources
used:
1. Ozhegov S.I. and Shvedova N.Y. Dictionary of Russian language. / Russian
Academy of Sciences. Russian Language Institute. V.V. Vinogradov - 4th ed., M
.: - Azbukovnik, 1999. - 944 p. - P. 116.
2. Kuprin O.A. Compromising as a genre of Russian journalism. //
Journalist. - ¹1.- S. 17.
3. Kenzheev B. // Arguments and fakts. 2004. - March, ¹13.- P. 4.
4. Akchurin // Arguments and Facts. 2005. - February, ¹5.- P. 4.
Abbreviations
of names of newspapers
A.- ”Aviatrek” K.- ”Konkretno ”
A.-R.- ”Aviatrek-Region” N.D.- ”Nashe delo”
V.- ”Vzglyad” N.V.- ”Novi'y vestnik”