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Levels of Discordance in Dystopia (based on English language material)
- Authors: Andreeva S.A.1, Solobuto D.S.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 4(885) (2024)
- Pages: 9-15
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/303780
- ID: 303780
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Abstract
The article looks into the levels of cognitive dissonance in dystopia. The authors propose three parameters of describing cognitive dissonance: the degree of abstraction, the degree of manifestation and the degree of context inclusion, establishing correlations between the descriptive parameters and the levels of dissonance (micro-, meso- and macro-levels). When analyzing concrete examples of cognitive dissonance the authors rely on the theory of conceptual integration and demonstrate that dystopian fiction contains cognitive dissonance of all the three levels.
About the authors
Svetlana Antonovna Andreeva
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: Sandreeva1@yandex.ru
Ph. D. (Philology), Assistant Professor, Department of English Stylistics, Faculty of the English Language
Russian FederationDiana Sergeevna Solobuto
Moscow State Linguistic University
Email: diana-f@mail.ru
Senior Lecturer, Department of English Stylistics, Faculty of the English Language
Russian FederationReferences
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