Ideological Field Model in the Ossetian Political Narrative

The study is devoted to the research of the Ossetian political narrative in the aspect of analyzing party ideologies, delimiting their structure and conceptual content in terms of interconceptual interactions at the verbal and cognitive levels, and based on the data posted on the official websites of the South Ossetian North Ossetian Parliaments and other Internet sources. When describing the content of ideologies, the methodological procedure of Max Frieden’s conceptual (morphological in the author’s terminology) analysis is used, as well as modeling of the cluster and adjacent conceptual connections. When analyzing the nominations of South Ossetian parties, the leading research techniques are cognitive, semantic and content analyses. The aim of the article is to build an algorithm for the conceptual interaction of nuclear ideological concepts and party systems at the implicit and verbal levels in the South Ossetian party narrative. It has been established that concepts in the South Ossetian party communication are characterized by institutionality, flexibility and ethnocultural affiliation. The varieties of concepts functioning in the South Ossetian political communication are revealed. The types of interaction between party concepts have been established - these are conceptual blends, adjacency, pairing or additivity. Variable models of political ergonyms and language codes that make them explicit are described. Among party onyms, synonymous elements of their verbal representations have been identified in Russian, in Ossetian or both. On the basis of the Ossetian value system, we have identified the conceptual structures that build the ideology family and the conceptual composite in the South Ossetian communication.