Keyword: «public 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.

In this article, the actual features of the domestic political language are considered on the basis of a critical analysis of Russia's past and current political culture and political discourse. This article is also focused on the knowledge of the specifics of Russian reality, viewed through the prism of the features of the language of modern politics. The term “political” is interpreted by the authors as a universal human activity oriented towards the transformation, organization and improvement of the social world. In this regard, political knowledge is considered in the article as successively located social discursive (language) practices.