Yulia A. Talagaeva

The study of the English military-political discourse, which is not only a valuable source of information about the attitude to war, but a means of manipulation, seems to be most relevant in the context of modern information wars. The purpose of this study is to develop an approach to the analysis of the modern military and political discourse of the US leaders. Leading approaches to research problems. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is the works of Russian and foreign researches in the field of discourse theory, institutional discourse, political discourse, military discourse. Main findings of the study. The analysis of the military-political discourse has shown that being a multidimensional communicative phenomenon, a military and political discourse is a means of implementing the military strategy of the United States. A specific feature of the US military-political discourse is the use of speech to influence the audience to make cognitive changes in their world view. When training future military specialists to perceive, process and extract information from foreign sources of a professional nature, attention should be paid not only to the linguistic aspects of military professional discourse, but also to the cognitive ones. The cognitive linguistic approach involves linguistic analysis of the text of speeches of military and political leaders, as well as critical analysis of discourse, consideration of pragmatics of speech acts, sociocultural circumstances of statements, which are particularly relevant to the current situation of information warfare. Theoretical and practical significance of the article. The present study formulates an approach to the interpretation of the modern military and political discourse of the USA, which can be implemented during the foreign language training of future specialists in the military and diplomatic fields, as well as in the training of translators / interpreters.