Keyword: «political discourse»

The paper analyzes the public statements of the American politician Donald Trump. The authors define the subject of political linguistics – political discourse, such kind of speech activity, which is aimed at a certain impact on the audience. The authors reveal common stylistic means as ways of creating expressiveness and techniques, which affect electorate.

The article aims to study the language of political discourse, and to consider the language as a key management tool because it is an essential attribute of power. We study the questions of gender specificity in politics and lingual stylistic features of political discourse by women-politicians on example of Hillary Clinton speeches. The article analyzes in detail the lexical means used to exert influence on the electorate.

The article is based on a linguistic and stylistic analysis of articles on Russia in the American socio-political media (The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and The International Herald Tribune) in 2008-2018. It shows the methods of using lexical and syntactic means to create a negative image of Russia (particularly, the coverage of the Russian-Georgian conflict in 2008).

The article focuses on metaphors with a color component used by politicians in the English-language media discourse to nominate economic realities. Using the example of the functioning of metaphors with a color component, the article considers the interaction of economic and political discourse in modern English-language media.