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Role played by political communication is hard to overstate today. Issues of power and authority are discussed openly within any social order built on the principles of transparency and democracy. Hence, solutions to a number of political problems largely depend on the adequacy of their linguistic interpretation. As a genre of political discourse, election discourse represents a type of communication marked by a high level of manipulation due to a number of reasons. That is why is seems important to single out the...

In the context of globalization the media have a significant impact on the language. The modern society is characterized by the rapid pace of development in the sphere of literature and art, as well as by scientific discoveries and the uprising of new realities and definitions, linguistic and extralinguistic forms of reflecting the reality. Understanding the language as a part of the culture of any modern society and a primary means of communication cannot but have specific features of mass culture development as ...

In the history of Russian literature names of F.M. Dostoevsky and M.Y. Saltykov-Shchedrin stand side by side and at the same time opposing each other. One of the painful issues, points of attraction and repulsion, points of consolidation and confrontation between the artistic worlds of the writers is their understanding of the phenomenon of power. They got their first impressions about the type of power relations predominating in Russian society at about the same time, in their youth, when they both took first ste...

The evolution of political metaphorical systems is one of the growing areas of political discourse studies, metaphor being the main mechanism of discourse formation. The authors stress the importance of the diachronic approach for the theory of political metaphor as national systems of political metaphors are constantly developing: each period brings new metaphors and changes national metaphorical systems. The aim of the diachronic analysis is the reconstruction of the historical course whose national systems of p...