Дискурсивные практики самоопределения участников российского волонтерского движения

Политическая экспертиза: ПОЛИТЭКС. 2014. № 4. С. 91–100.

Oberemko O. A., Оберемко Т. В.

A study of discursive identities oppositions in terms of the two semantically close words denoting "volunteers", the one being a local Russian word and the other, an international one, reveals some typical meanings of volunteer participation in Russian volunteer movement. It is shown that the differences between "volunteer" and local "dobrovolets (good-willer)" conceptualized in two main lines: (1) as an opposition of the references to the country's history and to contemporary social and linguistic contexts, (2) as an opposition of the native word, which is clear to understand to a foreign language word, whose meaning cannot intuitively be caught. Temporal oppositions have ambivalent connotations, while, for example, contemporary volunteerism is referred to ‘actions’ and ‘old-fashioned dobrovol’chestvo is referred to ‘real deeds’. 

Keywords: волонтеры, Гражданская идентичность, discursive construction of identity, дискурсивное конструирование идентичности, volunteers, волонтерская деятельность, voluntary activity, civic identity