Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 2. Языкознание1998-99112409-197910.15688/jvolsu2.2026.3.6OtherИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ КОММУНИКАТИВНОГО СМЯГЧЕНИЯ: МАТРИЦА МИТИГАТИВНЫХ СРЕДСТВ, ДВУХЭТАПНЫЙ АНАЛИЗ И СОЗДАНИЕ ЭТНОКУЛЬТУРНОГО ПРОФИЛЯSTUDY OF MITIGATION: MATRIX OF MITIGATION MEANS, TWO-STEPS ANALYSIS AND ETHNOCULTURAL PROFILE COMPOSINGАхметзяноваПолина АделевнаAkhmetzyanovaPolinapolina.akhmetzyanova@list.ruhttps://orcid.org/0009-0008-3827-9269ТахтароваСветлана СалаватовнаTakhtarovaSvetlanaalfia@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9268-6892Kazan (Volga Region) Federal UniversityKazanRussiaКазанский (Приволжский) федеральный университетг. КазаньРоссия2909202625368812010202502022026https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/CC BY 4.0https://l.jvolsu.com/index.php/ru/archive-ru/1034-science-journal-of-volsu-linguistics-2026-vol-25-no-3/mezhkulturnaya-kommunikatsiya-i-sopostavitelnoe-izuchenie-yazykov/3101-akhmetzyanova-p-a-takhtarova-s-s-issledovanie-kommunikativnogo-smyagcheniya-matritsa-mitigativnykh-sredstv-dvukhetapnyj-analiz-i-sozdanie-etnokulturnogo-profilya-na-angl-yaz

. В статье предлагается авторский подход к анализу митигативных средств политического дискурса. Цели исследования заключаются в построении матрицы митигативных средств английского и немецкого языков, представлении двухэтапного анализа митигативных средств в коммуникативной ситуации, включающего формальный и прагматический анализ, градуированной шкалы митигативных средств обоих языков, подтверждении взаимосвязи митигативных средств, используемых носителями языка в политическом дискурсе, с этнокультурными особенностями их коммуникативного стиля. Актуальность работы состоит в недостаточной изученности этнокультурных предпосылок коммуникативного смягчения в политическом дискурсе англичан и немцев. Материалами исследования послужили официальные транскрипты заседаний палаты общин Великобритании и бундестага Германии в период до и после введения локдаунов по причине пандемии коронавируса. Достижению целей способствовало применение следующих методов: анализ и синтез, контент-анализ, корпусный анализ с помощью программы AntConc для создания собственных корпусов и поиска в них митигативных средств согласно выстроенным матрицам коммуникативного смягчения на уровне пропозиции и дейксиса. Перспективы дальнейшего исследования лежат в расширении изучаемых лингвокультурных общностей и языков, построении матриц митигативных средств других языков и культур.

The article proposes an original approach to the analysis of mitigation means in political discourse. The main goals of the study are: to present the matrix of mitigation means in the English and German languages; to propose a two-level framework for analysing mitigation, covering the formal and pragmatic dimensions of the communicative situation; and to establish a link between the speech, its mitigating elements, and the communication patterns specific to an ethnic culture under scrunity. The need for a pragmatic analysis of every communicative situation is reasoned by the facts that the same language marker can act as both a mitigation and a non-mitigation device depending on the context. The relevance of the research lies in the fact that the ethnocultural factors of communication (more specifically, the mitigation) are understudied. The examination was completed on the basis of the House of Commons' and the Bundestag's transcripts of sessions devoted to the COVID-19 pandemics. The choice of material ensures comparability across two languages and cultures. The methods applied were analysis and synthesis; full-text sampling; intention analysis; content analysis; corpus analysis using AntConc software to search for mitigation means for proposition and deictic mitigation; quantitative estimation. The research could be further developed to be used for other ethnicities, cultures and languages; a matrix of mitigation in other languages can be constructed.

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