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Regionalisation in Northern Europe and the Northern Dimension in Russian political discourse
... 2000s, the development of regions with Russian participation was at its height in northwestern Europe. Cross-border regions arise both naturally, stemming from various functional relations, and as a result of political decisions. In the latter case, political discourse is an important factor in successful region-building. The Northern Dimension (ND) programme, which was launched in 1997, embodied the principle of depoliticised cooperation — Europe’s ‘new regionalism’. This article aims to evaluate ...
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Hybrid texts as a form of interaction between avant-garde artistic and political discourses
This paper explores hybrid texts as a special type of text that forms within ‘inter-discourse interaction’ and relates to the ‘convergence of discourses’. The analysis focuses on the interaction between avant-garde art and political discourses, which have been in close contact since the 20th century and have common typological features. The main methods used in this study are the linguistic pragmatic method, the linguistic poetic method, and discourse analysis. The article proposes ...
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Image and discourse. On the discursive nature of political image formation
The author proves that any image formed within political discourse is, in terms of its meaning, a mental object. It is claimed that, within discourse, the image of politics and the institutional practices of its formation are rather of psychological nature as well as that discourse register affects our perception ...
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Transformations in the Communicative Characteristics of Political Discourse in the Current Information Space
The article analyses the main causes and the genesis of transformations in political discourse (PD) and provides a comparative analysis of the present and earlier forms of PD. The author examines the ontology and principal characteristics of PD, describes the state of political discourse prior to its current transformation and identifies ...
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Frames in discourse analysis
... environ-ment of the sender and recipient is analysed. The structure of the frame model of a discourse as a cognitive space formed in view of the recipient’s relevance is described. Special attention is given to the process of conceptual integration in German political discourse.
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Verbal aggression in modern poetry: conventional and unconventional functioning of discourse markers
... discourse. In: N. D. Arutyunova, ed. Logicheskiĭ analiz yazyka. Adresatsiya diskursa [Logical analysis of language. Addressing discourse]. Moscow. pp. 225—233 (in Russ.).
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Linguistic personality as a subject of political discourse
This article deals with various concepts of linguistic personality. The article also describes relevant parameters of political discourse. Linguistic personality of a politician considers as a dynamic syncretic phenomenon.
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Semiotic Inversions in the Formation of the Political Image in the Media Discourse: the image of Russia in German media
The article describes the process of forming the political image of Russia in socio-political media through semiotic inversions. It is claimed that in the modern media discourse, the political image is based on the pre-established ‘rules of the game’. The author holds that historical facts are often replaced by false models of reality in the modern mass media discourse.
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The media image of San Escobar in the space of fictional worlds: a socio-semiotic perspective
... linguistics], 1 (in Russ.).
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Zheltukhina, M. R., 2000. Komicheskoye v politicheskom diskurse (na materiale nemeckogo I russkogo yazykov) [Comic in political discourse (on the material of German and Russian languages)]: Ph. D. Volgograd State Pedagogical University (in Russ.).
Zagibalova, M. A., 2008. Phenomen karnavalizacii sovremennoj kultury [The phenomenon of carnivalization of modern culture]: PhD....
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The functional perspective of political discourse
This article considers the interaction between the functional and semantic categories of theme and rheme forming the basis for the generation, information deployment, and functioning of discourse. It is emphasized that the communicative structure of a political text incorporates several types of the themerheme progression formed through replacing the theme with the rheme and the transformation of the latter into the theme. It is concluded that the effective communicative impact of discourse is achieved ...
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Communicative and pragmatic nature of intertextuality in English political discourse
The article discusses the communicative and pragmatic nature of intertextuality in political discourse, realized by different intertextual inclusions: allusions perform thematic functions in utterances specifying the thematic line in discourse while citations and phraseological units are used to form rhematic progressions, the aim of which is ...
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Realisation of the pragmatic potential of intertextuality in political discourse
The article discusses the pragmatic potential of inter-textual inclusions in political discourse and how this potential is determined by the commonly shared precedent knowledge held in the cognitive base of all the members of the society. The paper touches upon the notion of precedent texts which have a unique system of commonly shared ...
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Legal discourse and its main characteristics
The author analyses the main characteristics of legal discourse and its relatedness to the system of values of any given society, its political, religious and economic spheres. Legal discourse reflects historical and cultural conditionality. The main characteristics of legal discourse include reference to special legal concepts, narrow communicative setting and a number of semantic limitations.
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The functioning of interrogative hortative structures in the political discourse (based on V.V. Putin’s public speeches)
Based on the verbatim records of V.V. Putin’s public speeches, the authors examine syntactic structures representing different types of interrogative hortative modality in the political discourse. The functional-semantic and communicative features of these structures are identified in the oral speech of the mentioned discourse type.
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Motives behind breaking language norms in the English political discourse
This article considers motives behind the breaking of language norms in persuasion in the space of English political discourse. The study aims to determine the linguistic factors influencing the development of the semantic content of language anomalies and encouraging the use of the latter in public speech. The study found that the ability of linguistic deviations ...
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The symbolic complexes of mass culture and the semiosis of political discourse
In this article, I address the influence of modern mass culture (MC), its symbolic system, narratives, and protagonists on the political discourse. I emphasise that an analysis of the images of mass culture protagonists can give a complete picture of the society that continuously reproduces these protagonists and seeks to resemble them. Therefore, the mode of the production of effective ...
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The “European identity” of today: a category of political practice or discourse?
This paper considers the cultural, political, and historical problems of the development of European identity in the discourse of Europe. The author addresses the question as to whether European identity is a category of political discourse or a real instrument of European integration and comes to a conclusion that the concepts of European identity are stuck in a methodological trap. And the EU institutional design does not inspire confidence among the residents of united Europe....
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Polish-Russian relations as reflected in the programmes of right-wing political parties in Poland: a quantitative and qualitative analysis
... Polish-Russian relations. There are two important conclusions from the qualitative analysis. Firstly, international relations have a pronounced influence on the programmes of political parties. Secondly, as to the right-wing parties considered in the Polish political discourse as pro-Russian (the National Revival of Poland, the National Radical Camp), they are either far from being pro-Russian or Russia is quite low on their agenda.
Żęgota K.
Poland, political programmes, right-wing parties, Polish-Russian ...
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The discourse of “European identity” in the conditions of the EU crisis
... identity in the EU crisis conditions. European identity cannot develop in an institutional crisis. The concept of European identity requires structural reconstruction, new foundations, since the old ones are, to a great degree, an extension of earlier political discourses.
The author forecasts that the change in discourses around European identity will lead to a shift in the paradigm and the perception of this phenomenon in political theory.
1. Janik A. Different perception of Europe in a time of crisis Europe ...
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Historical memory in the age of globalization: the case of Russian- Estonian relations
... local importance. The author proves the latter statement through comparing Russian and Estonian discourses on the relationship between the events which took place in Tallinn in September 1944 and April 2007. Highlighting the differences between the two discourses may help Russian scholars understand the reasons behind the political decisions made by the Estonian authorities in April 2007. It accounts for the practical significance of the research conducted, since one of the most important objectives of international relations as a discipline is not to explain what decision ...
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Ethno-confessional immigrant ghettos as a national security problem in Denmark’s social and political discourse
... objective process of the emergence of ethno-religious ‘parallel societies’ in the state. Cultural and religious principles that are often at odds with the democratic values of Danish society guide the actions of ghetto residents. Danish social and political discourse pictures this ideological difference between the host society and Muslim immigrant minorities as a potential threat to Denmark’s national security caused by a combination of political, social, and economic factors. The ensuing social disunity ...
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Linguistic and pragmatic potential of metaphors in political discourse
... determining the role of language means in enhancing the pragmatic potential of a political text. The main aim of the study is to explore the pragmatic potential of metaphor by means of a systematic analysis of different types of metaphors typical of political discourse. Metaphors in political discourse are an effective tool of influencing the addressee's intellectual, volitional, and emotional state. Our research has shown that a wide range of metaphors is used for achieving a powerful information and emotional ...
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Language specificity of the texts of political speeches of Angela Merkel
This article discusses the concept of discourse, its special form political discourse, the verbal behavior of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, especially her ability to put into practice different speechmeans in political communications. It focuses on the analysis of the linguistic-stylistic and pragmalinguistic resources realized ...
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The linguistic-pragmatic features of the realization of speech acts of threat in the political discourses of Germany and Spain
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Bagdasarov S. A., Lenets A. V.
threat, speech act, political discourse, componential analysis, linguistic pragmatics
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The intertexteme as an instrument in the past — present — future dialogical space of urbanism practices: an intersemiotic analysis of graffiti and inscriptions in Gdansk and Kaliningrad
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The Image of Contemporary Russia n Language and Culture: the Thematic Issue of «Russian Review»
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The moving boundaries of news translation
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Models of narrative syntactics as a tool for analysing images of states
... of the states in question in certain discourses. A. J. Greimas's model of narrative syntactics is used to demonstrate how syntactic descriptions of images of states can be built in the case of Kosovo and South Ossetia as presented in official Russian political discourse.
1. Берендеев М. В. «Образ» как эпистемологическая категория в дискурсивных практиках // МЕТОД : Московский ежегодник трудов из обществоведческих ...
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The features of talkativity implementation in the political online discourse (a case study of personal websites of members of the British parliament)
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political online discourse, “talkativity”, social networks, blogs, interactivity.
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Russian soft power in the Baltic States through the lens of research: traditions, competition, confrontation
In this article, we aim to analyse the research discourse in the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) as regards Russian soft power, which is considered as hard power, and to compare the theses that dominate this discourse with the actual interactions between Russia and the three states in media, education, and culture. Each Baltic country has built a system of political and legal restrictions to diminish the effect of Russian soft power, which is considered in terms of hard power, i.e. as a threat to national security. The current forms of Russian soft power are becoming less productive in the region and their ...
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Geopolitical transformation of the Kaliningrad oblast of the Russian Federation
... isolated from the motherland and turned into an exclave. Gradually the exclave found itself first at the crossroads of different security structures and later — surrounded by one of them. Changes in the situation gave rise to the so-called Kaliningrad discourse, i. e. political decisions, academic discussions and research, influenced by the internal transformation in the USSR and the Russian Federation (RF) as well as slips in the international policies of Central and Eastern Europe.
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Text localization as a task of translation
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Emotional and receptive-axiological aspects of the speech act of threat in everyday conflict communication in Russian
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The concept “people” in A. S. Shishkov’s manifestoes in the discourse of the Patriotic War of 1812
... manifestoes by Shishkov. These texts expressed the official position of the supreme authority on national unity. The method of discourse analysis employed by the author, made it possible to place Shishkov’s texts in a broader historical context, tracing ... ... [Letters of a Russian officer about the military incidents of 1812]. Moscow (in Russ.).
Gorolevich, I., 2011. The War of 1812: a political analysis. Red Star, 20 Apr. Available at:
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Speech behaviour of Internet users in conflict communication
... it possible to define the roles and attitudes of participants in the conflict interaction. The authors employed methods of discourse analysis and corpus tools of data collection and marking. Seven confrontational threads in the communities of the social ... ...
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Political reconsideration of the Soviet past: attitudes and actions of the Lithuanian elites
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Modern trends in the Baltic countries in the discourse of identity: between sovereignty and European integration
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The illocutionary aims of the positive-evaluative speech acts (in English artistic discourse)
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The antinomy of political reason. Some deliberations on Kant’s “Answer-ing the Question: What is Enlightenment?”
... prerequisites and the essence of this project and analyses the difference between the “public” and “private” use of reason. The article emphasises the major significance of this difference for developing the ideal of enlightenment in the field of politics. It is suggested that this ideal be seen in the evolutionarydevelopment of society based on the transformation of public consciousness. Kant’s view that the key discourse for social development consists in a comprehensive critique of social reality by a citizen capable of self-determination is considered against the background of Rousseau’s ideas, who defended the right of people to revolution. The reconstruction ...
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Embedding imagology in Translation Studies
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Argumentum ad morti in the violence discourse: the semantics and pragmatics of ‘radical’ argumentation
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argumentation, violence discourse, communication, polemics, death, argument, anti-dixi
Tulchinskii G. L.
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How transcendental are Kant’s principles of public law?
... are as empirical criteria for establishing legitimacy, and whether they can be characterized as ‘transcendental’. Kant’s discourse on publicity — a result of strenuous efforts presented in a number of writings and lectures — takes the reader to ... ... out to be either motives for searching for transcendental principles or example s targeted at a certain type of readers and political agents. Identifying the role of publicity principles in Kant’s system of law and their strict positioning is also ...
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Russia and the Baltic States: Some Results and a Few Perspectives
... Baltics; yet acting upon this interest is made either difficult or altogether impossible when it comes to the Baltic States. For 20 years, the Russian Federation has been actively promoting a model of mutually beneficial co-operation. The anti-Russian discourse of the Baltic States' political elites — driven by their own wish to maintain their political monopoly — halts most of co-operation efforts. It is time to accept that the previous model of co-operation with the Baltic States is now irrelevant, since these states now form ...
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Some aspects of the speech portrait of the German president, J. Gauck as observed in political speeches
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Tsvetkova E.
political discourse, verbal portrait, linguistic-stylistic potential, pragmalinguistic resources, strategy of dialogue with supporters.
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The Works of Modern Russian Historians and the Historiography of Medieval Lithuania before and after the Red October
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On the Semiotic Model of Image
... in a certain discourse), b) the transfer function (transmission (synchronic and diachronic) of semiotic experience from one discourse to another), c) logonomic function (prescription and enabling of the future of acts of semiosis, similar to a certain ... ... M. V., Fomin, I. V., 2016. And the meaning, and the measure. Semiotics in the space of modern science. Politicheskaya nauka [Political science], 3, pp. 30—45 (in Russ.).
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The rhetoric and logic of the representations of the Russian-Turkish War of 1877–1878 in Russian public discourse
... vision of the conflict was instrumental in ‘Westernising’ the image of the Russian Empire. The critics of this model placed both parties of the conflict in a common oriental framework but did not equate them. Self-orientalisation was viewed as a political challenge that required Westernisation, which did not apply to the other party to the conflict that represented the Orient proper. The political authorities of the Russian Empire could not retain control over the broad rhetorical framework that ...