The „orange” fear, anti-western psychosis – the old (or new?) phobias of Russia in the language of modern newspapers

Abstract

Emotions in human consciousness take form of emotional concepts, described by means of such features as traditions, customs, special stereotypes of thinking, behavior models, etc. The whole range of emotional concepts forms the emotional conceptual sphere of human consciousness.

Fear can be considered not only as a psychological category since the emotion of fear has become one of central concepts of philosophy, literature, anthropology and linguistics. For many people the definition of fear has changed. Nowadays, fear can represent not only an individual mental condition but it can also concern the whole social group or reflect different characteristics of the entire society’s consciousness.

The aim of the article is to investigate cognitive and semantic aspects of the means of expression fear based on the Russian modern newspapers.