Abstract

This article presents an interdisciplinary analysis of sense destabilization in contemporary political Internet discourse from the perspectives of applied linguistics and the philosophy of language. The study introduces and conceptualizes sense destabilization as a communicative strategy in which formal coherence is preserved while semantic integrity is neutralized. Particular attention is paid to linguistic mechanisms that imitate meaningfulness and transform language into an instrument of semantic masking and informational noise.

The study focuses on political Internet discourse in Eastern contexts (China, Japan, Iran), where indirect communication, ritualized rhetoric, and hierarchical discourse traditions intensify strategies of simulated coherence. The theoretical framework draws on the ideas of A. Camus, M. Heidegger, G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, J. Kristeva, and L. Wittgenstein. The methodological approach combines critical discourse analysis, philosophical hermeneutics, cognitive linguistics, and selected natural language processing tools.

The empirical corpus comprises samples of political digital communication from the aforementioned regions, which enables the identification of ritually stabilized linguistic constructions that create an illusion of sense without substantive cognitive content. As a result, an original typology of linguistic strategies for sense destabilization is proposed at the lexical, syntactic, pragmatic, and algorithmic levels. The findings demonstrate that contemporary digital political communication is characterized by simulational coherence, where grammatical correctness persists despite the erosion of semantic depth. The study contributes to understanding linguistic mechanisms of post-truth discourse and information warfare in the digital age.

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