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<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" dtd-version="1.4" article-type="research-article" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 2. Языкознание</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">1998-9911</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2409-1979</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15688/jvolsu2.2025.4.6</article-id><article-categories><subj-group><subject>Other</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="ru">«ПРОСТИТЕ, НО Я ВСЕ ЖЕ СКАЖУ»: КРИТИКА В ТИСКАХ ВЕЖЛИВОСТИ В ЖАНРЕ ТЕАТРАЛЬНОГО ИНТЕРНЕТ-ОТЗЫВА</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>“SORRY, BUT I HAVE TO SAY”: CRITICISM TRAPPED BY POLITENESS IN THE GENRE OF A THEATRE INTERNET REVIEW</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Иванова</surname><given-names>Светлана Викторовна</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Ivanova</surname><given-names>Svetlana</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><email>svet_victoria@mail.ru</email><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-0127-9934</contrib-id></contrib><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg , Russian Federation)</institution></aff><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет (Санкт-Петербург, Российская Федерация)</institution></aff></aff-alternatives></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2025-11-27"><day>27</day><month>11</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>24</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>66</fpage><lpage>77</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-03-25"><day>25</day><month>03</month><year>2025</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2025-06-05"><day>05</day><month>06</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><license xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:title="CC BY 4.0"><ali:license_ref>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ali:license_ref><license-p xml:lang="ru">CC BY 4.0</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://l.jvolsu.com/index.php/ru/archive-ru/976-science-journal-of-volsu-linguistics-2025-vol-24-no-4/glavnaya-tema-nomera/2973-ivanova-s-v-prostite-no-ya-vse-zhe-skazhu-kritika-v-tiskakh-vezhlivosti-v-zhanre-teatralnogo-internet-otzyva-na-angl-yaz" xlink:title="https://l.jvolsu.com/index.php/ru/archive-ru/976-science-journal-of-volsu-linguistics-2025-vol-24-no-4/glavnaya-tema-nomera/2973-ivanova-s-v-prostite-no-ya-vse-zhe-skazhu-kritika-v-tiskakh-vezhlivosti-v-zhanre-teatralnogo-internet-otzyva-na-angl-yaz">https://l.jvolsu.com/index.php/ru/archive-ru/976-science-journal-of-volsu-linguistics-2025-vol-24-no-4/glavnaya-tema-nomera/2973-ivanova-s-v-prostite-no-ya-vse-zhe-skazhu-kritika-v-tiskakh-vezhlivosti-v-zhanre-teatralnogo-internet-otzyva-na-angl-yaz</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The study is focused on the interaction of criticism and politeness in critical theatre reviews posted on social networks. The sample includes more than 1,000 posts published in a theater lovers group on the VKontakte social network. The concept of polite criticism is introduced in the article. This type of criticism is implemented in the text in several directions. It is established that politeness can bring about modification of the communicative goal, alterations in the genre script, including the omission of aspects that provoke criticism, changes in the narrative strategy, when a critical judgment is placed in the middle of the text, where the severity of criticism is less pungent. The article also describes cases when the object of criticism is shifted by foregrounding the author as the one being criticized, as well as by taking criticism beyond the object that is criticized, i.e. to the level of the situation. It also shows that the situation under consideration can be represented in an abridged format. In linguistic terms, preference is given to lexical and grammatical units that reduce the critical tone of the statement. Logically, concession and contrast are engaged for the criticism to be outplayed by something praiseworthy. Polite criticism results in expressing a critical judgment on the border of bona-fide and non-bona-fide communication.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="ru" abstract-type="summary"><p>Статья посвящена исследованию проявлений категории вежливости при выражении критики в жанре театрального интернет-отзыва, размещенного в виде поста в социальных сетях. Эмпирическая выборка охватывает более чем 1 000 постов на русском языке, опубликованных в группе любителей театра в социальной сети «ВКонтакте». В статье предлагается понятие вежливой критики в дополнение к имеющимся разновидностям критики. Такая критика реализуется в тексте по нескольким направлениям. Установлено, что вежливость может приводить к смене коммуникативной цели, изменениям в жанровом скрипте вплоть до опущения вызывающих критику аспектов, изменению нарративной стратегии, когда критическое суждение помещается в середину текста, где острота критики менее ощутима. Описаны случаи смещения объекта критики за счет выдвижения в качестве критикуемого самого автора, а также вынесения критики за пределы критикуемого объекта – на уровень ситуации. Показано, что ситуация, которая описывается, может быть подвергнута редуцированию. В языковом плане предпочтение отдается лексическим и грамматическим единицам, которые снижают критическую тональность высказывания. На уровне логического механизма используются уступительные и контрастивные конструкции. В результате автор критического отзыва балансирует на грани двух полярных модусов коммуникации – bona-fide и non-bona-fide.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>вежливость</kwd><kwd>критика</kwd><kwd>театральный отзыв</kwd><kwd>интернет-отзыв</kwd><kwd>non-bona-fide-коммуникация</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>politeness</kwd><kwd>criticism</kwd><kwd>theatre review</kwd><kwd>internet review</kwd><kwd>non-bona-fide communication</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><ref id="ref1"><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xml:lang="en">Attardo S., 2020. The Linguistics of Humor. An Introduction. Oxford, Oxford University Press. XXI, 465 p.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="ref2"><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xml:lang="en">Brown P., Levinson S.C., 1987. Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. 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