Keyword: «political linguistics»

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 paper compares the tradition of discourse analysis which originated in the USA and saw reception in Europe with the national tradition of discourse studies. The paper stresses the need to link discourse studies with European ancient tradition of rhetorical studies. The paper sums up original discourse studies of political mass media discourse in English.

This article is devoted to the analysis of the idiostyle features of former British Prime Minister Theresa May. The authors make an attempt to create the politician’s speech portrait, identify and structure the targets, speech tactics, strategies and stylistic devices used by Mrs. May and the influence of speech behavior on political culture and public opinion. The research of the speech portrait of the politician not only reveals the individual characteristics of the leader, but also allows us to understand their influence on political processes and public perception.