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METAPHORICAL DISCOURSE OF RUSSIAN AND CHINESE POLITICAL LEADERS
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Political metaphorology is a research area in modern science, which arose at the intersection of political linguistics on the one hand, and the conceptual metaphor theory (G. Lakoff), on the other. Until the end of the previous century, the undisputed leaders of the considered scientific area were scholars from the United States, but since the beginning of this century, such studies have been actively carried out in Russia, Germany, France, Bulgaria, and other European countries. The main interest of modern Russian linguists is focused on public communication of Russian presidents Boris Yeltsin, Dmitry Medvedev and especially Vladimir Putin. Taking the dynamics of cultural and political context into account, Russian scholars analyze the presidents communicative activity and thus, seek to distinguish between personal and institutional components of the presidential discourse. In recent years, political metaphorology has been actively developing in China, where they present more and more papers on metaphors and tropes used by Chinese national leaders, particularly Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping. All this creates a basis for the development of comparative studies, which provide for unveiling both global patterns and national peculiarities of the political leaders discourse.
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