Метарефлексія корупційних практик: інтерсекція дискурсивних матриць та міжнародної комунікації

Corruption narratives, operating within complex political and economic constellations, constitute not only a social pathology but also a tool for global strategic communication. In the international dimension, the discursive articulation of corruption is conditioned by heterogeneous cognitive structures that integrate ideological paradigms, media effects and legal dispositions. The relevance of this issue is determined by the necessity in a reflexive explication of corrupt phenomena within the framework of transnational communication flows, where the interaction of political, economic and semiotic components takes on an irreversible globalising character. The methodological basis of the study synthesises critical discourse analysis, poststructuralist hermeneutics, and a systems approach to the analysis of international communications. The interdisciplinary methodology use enables the identification of latent mechanisms in constructing the meanings of corruption in media and political spaces. The research findings demonstrate that corruption narratives performatively function within the political semiosphere, where they not only reproduce power dispositions but also serve as a mechanism for regulating societal perceptions. It has been revealed that the discursive matrices through which corruption is interpreted incorporate polysemantic meaning inversions that mediate the legitimating and delegitimating aspects of political regimes. The analysis of key semantic oppositions in public and diplomatic discourses highlights the specific interference between local and global strategies of manipulating the corruption issue. The study proves that the semiotic constructs of corruptibility are formed through the interaction of political institutions, media corporations, and international organisations operating within the frameworks of discursive power regimes. The conclusions emphasises the necessity in further reconceptualisation of corruption as a complex communicative construct, which undergoes dynamic transformations under the influence of information and communication technologies. It highlights the importance of rethinking the role of media discourses in legitimating anti-corruption measures, which, rooted in power paradigms, often function as mechanisms of covert political instrumentalisation.