HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

THE IMAGE OF “THE ALIEN” IN THE MODERN POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY

2015. №2, pp. 38-47

Frolova Yuliya S. - Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Caspian Institute of Sea & River Transport, 414000, Russia, Astrakhan 6/14 Nikolskaya st, usfro@mail.ru

Amirkhanyan Anait M. - Doctor of Philological Sciences, Armenian State Pedagogical University, 0010, Armenia, Yerevan, Tigran Mets pr., 17, amirknan@yahoo.com

Modern political mythology offers a choice of a very wide range of topics and issues that are working on the positive image of power, making it more attractive. The image of an “alien” or a “foreign” as one of mythological images is often used in a manipulative way and is indued with negative features. Accumulated scientific data let us identify both tecniques of using such mythology to justify the government and verification methods of the available falsification.

Key words: «чужой», элита, мифология, фальсификация, манипуляция, “alien”, “stranger”, 9 the elite, mythology, falsification, manipulation

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