The contrast of representation of political conflicts in American and Russian presidential discourses
Journal: Proceedings of Southern Federal University Philology
Year: 2016

The problem discussed in the article is topical due to the interest of linguists to the phenomenon of political modalization as an immanent feature of political and especially presidential discourse in which language is used as the main instrument of political power, its maintenance, exercise and change. This modalization presupposes axiological ambivalency of interpretation of political events in oppositional political discourses. The article reveals linguistic means used for the modalization i