Comitative inter-state communication: linguoideological analysis of coordinative vs. subordinate relations between Germany and Turkey in the newspaper narrative on the migration crisis in the European union

• Main Author: Milostivaya Alexandra I.
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Publishing and Printing Center NOSU 2018-09-01
• Series: Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики
• Subjects: comitative communication; newspaper narrative; ideology; coordinative communication situation; subordinate communicative situation; critical discourse analysis; migration crisis in the european union
• Online Access: http://philjournal.ru/upload/2018-3/118-129.pdf
• ISSN: 2079-6021; 2619-029X

The article deals with the extrapolation of the comitative concept into the area of the critical discourse analysis. In сommunication the comitative seme “Joint Action” is supplemented by various (coordinative and subordinate) connotations, which are determined by the intentions of the narrator. On the material of Russian and German newspaper narratives, the features of the coordinative vs. subordinate communication contacts between the two states (Germany and Turkey) associated with attempts to resolve the migration crisis in the European Union. For the study, high-quality and tabloid German and Russian media for 2016 were involved: “Izvestia”, “Argumenty i Fakty”, “Frankfurter Allgemeine”, and “Express”. The results of the research can be used in practical classes in German at the university, as well as in seminars on the stylistics of Russian and German and on the theory of political discourse. The tasks set within the study are completed with the descriptive method, as well as the contextual and hermeneutic analyses. Our observations reveal that not only in the German, but also in the Russian press, while reporting on the comitative interaction between Germany and Turkey on the refugee issue, subordinate communicative situations dominate the political position of the German side. First of all, this trend is evident in the Russian newspaper “Argumenty i Fakty” and in the German newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine”. Turkey’s positioning as an active participant in communicative action in other analyzed media is carried out only in contexts with a negative axiological tone, where its gregarious demands to Europeans on the question of abolishing the visa regime or violation of the rights of Kurds or freedom of press by the Turkish side in the territory of their own country are criticized. The article concludes the relevance of position-combinatorial focusing of the participant of the newspaper interaction to identify the ideological preferences of the narrator.