Civic Duty And The Empire: Images And Metaphors In Us Media Mythologies

Abstract

In modern humanities, there is a constant process of expanding the methods of analysis, approaches to understanding the subject of research, interdisciplinary synthesis. The study of the process of the emergence and evolution of metaphors in the context of the US media discourse will contribute to both the approbation of a new approach to the classical subject (foreign policy), and will allow using a specific example of the methodological tools of history, political science, philology, sociology to understand modern military-political, historical, ideological, socio-cultural processes, some of which may be challenges for Russia and its society. A comprehensive analysis of the evolution of images and metaphors through the study of the specifics of the perception by the political elite, the military, the public and the US media of international relations at the beginning of the 21st, which allows one to speak about the formation of a special phenomenon of the socio-political life of the United States, the reconstruction and explanation of which are impossible within the framework of the traditional methodology of historical research, and require an interdisciplinary approach based on the analysis of images and metaphors. In 2003-2005 there is a serious transformation in the media discourse of the United States of such categories as "empire" and "civic duty". The empire is finally deprived of its negative color, and the civic duty of the Americans receives the broadest, moreover, a global interpretation.