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GASLIGHTING AS VIEWED FROM THE ANGLE OF LINGVOSEMIOTICS (by example of the film Gas Light, 1944)
- Authors: Kartashkova F.I.1, Morozkina T.V.2
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Affiliations:
- Ivanovo State University
- Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University
- Issue: No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 51-57
- Section: Philology. Linguistics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2219-5254/article/view/310955
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.46726/H.2025.1.7
- ID: 310955
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Abstract
The paper is devoted to the analysis of such psychological phenomenon as gaslighting. Verbal means of manipulation leading the victim of gaslighting to emotional instability are analyzed. It is shown that non-verbal ways of manipulation contribute to
the victim’s awareness of her inadequacy. Emotional instability of the victim picks up and we can suppose that the victim is in an altered state of consciousness. A number of verbal tactics which is used by the gaslighter to affect the victim’s consciousness are shown.
About the authors
F. I. Kartashkova
Ivanovo State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: kartashkova@rambler.ru
Doctor of Science (Philology), Professor of the Department of Foreign Philology, Institute of Humanities Ivanovo, Russian Federation
T. V. Morozkina
Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University
Email: tatyana_morozkin@mail.ru
Candidate of Sciences (Philology), Associate Professor of the Department of Romano-Germanic languages Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation
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