EXTRALINGUAL FACTORS OF DISCURSIVE PRACTICES OF FAKE NEWS

Abstract

The article focuses on the issues of discursive practice of fake news as a certain type and format of social practice, which organizes social life by falsified means, determines communicative forms of individual behavior in typical situations in order to mislead, control minds and behavior of individuals and / or social groups through preferencial access to mass media resources, which promptly respond to any innovative processes in society, indicate the major transformations of society, changes in a particular community. The study identifies extra lingual factors of discourse formation that led to the creation of important social, cognitive, technological, political and ethical issues, as well as understanding the conditions and social practices under which there was a possibility of such discourse practices. The research reveals that modern discursive formation that correlate with specific technological, political, information and communicative means of virtual and real media resources have formed specific interactive and communicative/discursive practices of fake news as a hybrid form of information production and dissemination in order to manipulatively influence the public opinion, political decisions in the best interests of dominated groups.