Concept money as a trigger of communicative sabotage (as exemplified in yury dud’s internet show)

Abstract

The question of describing the formation and course of Internet communication in view of the popularity and demand for Internet content among a mass audience is quite relevant today. The implementation and functioning of the concept "money" in an online interview, according to the authors of this article, can contribute to a hidden confrontation of the situation of speech communication from the interlocutor – the use of such speech tools that help not only avoid a direct answer to the question posed by the interviewer, but also turn the conversation into a favorable course for themselves, change the topic of conversation. The authors aim to describe the ability of the concept "money" in the replica-question of an Internet interview to cause a sense of frustration of the interlocutor, which in its turn makes the latter sabotage the interviewer’s question. In the article, communicative sabotage is considered a means of speech manipulation that is used by a speaker to influence the consciousness of the recipient and impose his opinion on the audience. Using a continuous sampling method, the authors determined the extracts of interviews, including questions in which the concept "money" is implemented, and the answers to these questions were analyzed. In the interviews under study the concept “money” is verbalized by a variety of lexical means: numerals, names of currencies, colloquial and jargon lexemes, borrowings from English, etc. The use of communicative sabotage by interview participants was recorded in almost all the fragments of the Internet program under consider. However, it is underlined that in some cases, a receptor is ready to give full answers to raised questions and not to commit sabotage in the course of communication – the peculiarities of the communicative situation as well as relationships between interlocutors and characteristic features of a speaker should be considered here.