Manipulative forms of media language in crisis situations

Abstract

In the crisis situations that society has been going through lately (pandemics, war), propaganda is very active, which aims to spread some information aimed to convince the receiver, to gain his trust. However, very often, propaganda uses fake news, half-truths, various specific interpretations of events, which can mislead and create distorted images of reality. For this purpose, various lexical-semantic and grammatical means of expression are used. The article analyzes a series of cases of this kind.