СОЮЗ «ЗАТО» КАК СРЕДСТВО РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ КОМПЕНСАЦИИ В РУССКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ
CONJUNCTION ЗАТО AS A MEANS OF REALIZATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPENSATION IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the construction зато in a contemporary public discourse. The conjunction is analyzed as a connector between specific types of speech acts generating two types of discourse: 1) the discourse of self-justification and 2) discourse of self-complacency. The article describes the semantic differences of the conjunction зато in these types of discourses and differences in the speech acts of self-justification and self-complacency. The author believes that the activation of usage of the conjunction зато in a contemporary discourse, traditionally attributable to a low frequency use, indicates a certain attitude to the world-view of a speaking person. He/she requires a compensation mechanism on the language level realized through this conjunction which possesses an inherent compensating meaning. The need for compensation may speak of a certain complex of vulnerability of the personality standing behind these discourses. A quick comparison with Polish, Lithuanian and German online discourses initiates thinking that the representatives of these cultures sparsely resort to the mechanism of compensation by medium of the individual language means. This allows us to see a psychological peculiarity of the subjects in the activating of the conjunction зато in the public discourses. According to O. Sedakova, this peculiarity could be called “friendship with evil”. KEY WORDS: compensation mechanism, the discourse of self-justification, the discourse of complacency, affect of inadequacy, values of society.

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