The paper is devoted to the analysis of such psychological phenomenon as gaslighting. Verbal means of manipulation leading the victim of gaslighting to emotional instability are analyzed. It is shown that non-verbal ways of manipulation contribute to the victim’s awareness of her inadequacy. Emotional instability of the victim picks up and we can suppose that the victim is in an altered state of consciousness. A number of verbal tactics which is used by the gaslighter to affect the victim’s consciousness are shown.
For citation: Kartashkova F.I., Morozkina T.V. Gaslighting as viewed from the angle of lingvosemiotics (by example of the film Gas Light, 1944), Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2025, iss. 1, pp. 51—57.