Keyword: «communicative need»

The article discusses the discursive aspect of working with texts on socio-political topics. The author points out that texts related to a special type of news discourse imply the need to solve the problem of their perception, understanding and interpretation by foreign military personnel. The article indicates the importance of the fact that working with texts with special discursive characteristics involves the development of teaching materials demonstrating various methods of working with texts of a media discourse, which is both a specific type of speech-cognitive activity, characteristic only for the media information field, and any kind discourse realized in the field of mass communication. The article provides practical recommendations on the use of media text of the socio-political genre.