Representation of the "enemy" frame in modern media discourses in Russia and the UK

The subject of the research is the phenomenon of the "enemy" in the media discourses of Russian and British linguistic cultures. The relevance of the research subject is related to the increased confrontation in the media environment caused by the aggravation of world-class political and economic situations. At the same time, the Internet is gaining increasing popularity, the availability of public access to which allows politicians in many countries to increasingly use it as the main space for information influence on the public. The purpose of the study is to describe and compare the semantic components that define the image of the enemy in the two analyzed linguistic cultures, based on the media texts used. A comparative description of the phenomenon under study in different linguistic cultures allows it to be qualified as a culturally determined frame that shows the peculiarities of the worldview in the national linguistic environment that applies it. Research methods such as continuous sampling, conceptual analysis, classification and systematization of analyzed linguistic units into semantic components, and the comparative method were used in the work. According to the results of the study, two groups of components were identified that make up the meaning of the word "enemy" in the analyzed linguistic cultures, such as: slot components describing basic evaluative features, and terminals expressed by certain linguistic units in a presented communicative situation that mentions this phenomenon. According to observations, the components of the second named group cause the first. The selected slot components of the described phenomenon manifested a number of subframes that determine the subject of the study by two fundamental factors, such as: basic (manifesting intention and act) and additional. The latter point to various ways of evaluating a hostile act, including the following: legal, moral, emotional, or ideological criteria. The data obtained showed a number of common (regarded by representatives of both linguistic cultures) and specific (appreciated by representatives of one of the studied linguistic cultures) components of the phenomenon under study.

enemy, audience, recipient, frame, communitive situation, subframe, media image, concept, slot, terminal