On the Issue of Conflict Potential of Socio-Political Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere

This article examines the features of socio-political discourse based on texts online blogs public opinion leaders —I. Varlamov, Yu. Latynina, R. Kadyrov, N. Mikhalkov, S. Mikheev, and M. Simonyan. The purpose is to determine degree conflictogenicity Russian blogosphere, specifically media personalities, leaders; results obtained will provide for predicting preventing occurrence conflict situations by establishing reducing index text, main indicator which frequency corresponding lexical markers. authors distinguish several subtypes their features. genre specificity such new phenomenon as Internet blog considered. There a high in analytical texts, signaled specific markers identified with help content analysis method. Foreign policy regardless authors’ personal views, appear have greatest number markers, means that political analytics, object consideration lies plane international intercultural communication, has significant potential. In Internet, journalism general, addressees conflicting vocabulary are not same due discursive space, direct recipients information subscribers, who rule orientation close author. very refers persons occupy opposite position. manifestation analyzed at three levels: stylistic, semantic pragmatic, makes it possible identify all liberal, patriotic official discourse. revealed each discourse: official. under analysis, highest characteristic belonging liberal subtype greater use units related conflict, stylistically reduced modality—up obscene words. At time, nature closer traditional style shows less expressiveness metaphors, irony, phraseology, words seme negative evaluation.