Spiritual and moral values in the structure of Russian media texts (on the example of the newspaper Izvestia)

Joanna Wasiluk

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Lingwistyki Stosowanej, Katedra Rusycystyki
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8994-8177

Abstract

The development of civilization and related transformation processes in society are affected the system of spiritual and moral values. As a result of intense and rapid changes in the end of the 20th – beginning of the 21st century connected with globalization, completely new values began to appear, those previously established ones were enriched and new spiritual and moral values were formed as a result of a combination of traditional and new values. In connection with the growing processes of globalization, the issue of spiritual and moral values that are being spread in the media today has become very topical, especially considering that it is the mass media that play a very significant role in the struggle to preserve national and cultural identity. Therefore, the essence of our analysis constitutes of issues relating to the values that the authors of Russian media texts are guided by, the frequency of their mentioning according to the context.

Keywords:

spiritual and moral values, globalization, crisis of values, media, society