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REPRESENTATION OF CONCEPT “FOOTBALL EXTREMISM” IN ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN DISCOURSES
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The given work is connected with the concept of extremism, which is one of the key problems of the modern world, and the football fans movement as a part of an extremist one. The urgency lays in the importance of studying football extremism discourse. The object of the work is the football extremism discourse. The data of the research are articles and books about football fans from the Internet sources. Methods of the research are analysis of dictionary definitions and component analysis. It has been established that the football extremism frame has four slots: antisocial, subculture, politics and sport. The data has been collected by means of search engine Google and analysed with the help of the programme “Semograf”. In total there have been analysed 636 contexts from 1970 till present. It has been indicated that the slot sport is represented with 29,45\% in Russian discourse and with 31,02\% in English discourse; the slot antisocial is represented more in English discourse (37,95\%) while in Russian discourse it is represented with 27,27\% of all the contexts; the slot politics is represented with 39,63\% in Russian discourse and with 31,02\% in English discourse; the slot subculture is represented only in Russian discourse (3,63\%). Due to these results it becomes possible to define the peculiarities of extremist statements among football fans.
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