Almost in the manner of Heinrich Böll: the recovered honour of Mikhalina Lysova? Cover Image

Почти по Хайнрих Бьол: възстановената чест на Михалина Лисова?
Almost in the manner of Heinrich Böll: the recovered honour of Mikhalina Lysova?

Author(s): Antoaneta Dimitrova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Communication studies, Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: epistemic modality; Mikhalina Lysova; the doping-scandal with Russia; the German tabloid BILD; defamation

Summary/Abstract: Abstract: The present empirical study examines the epistemic modality of German media reports about the visually impaired russian athlete Mikhalina Lysova and about her participation in the XII Paralympic Winter Games in 2018 in Pyeongchang. The media reports are presented in a broader context of the doping-scandal with Russia – it is a two-year retrospection before Lysova won the court case against the German tabloid BILD because of an report under the title „Scandal On Paralympics! Russian who takes doping can go to Pyeongchang”. The article also discusses defamation, which is subject to condemnation according to moral and legal norms.