Features of the discursive dominants in the political communication


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The article considers the discursive dominants represented in the political Internet discourse and official political discourse. Subjective (characteristic and axiological), actional and spatial dominants are analyzed. The patterns of foregrounding certain situation components are established.
The aim of the present study is to analyze foregrounding of certain discursive dominants depending on the political communication type. The authors set the following tasks to achieve this goal: to study the subject-related theoretical material, to analyze the frequency of the discursive dominants in the political communication, to identify the realization features of the speaker's intention in the political Internet discourse and in the official political discourse.
The material for the analysis were the US President’s utterances in the social network, as well as official documents of the Presidential Actions, posted on the website of the US Government.
The authors of the article use various methods, including observation and description, comparative method, contextual analysis, discourse analysis. The study scientific novelty lies in the comparison of two different spheres of the political communication. In the process of discourse interaction certain discursive dominants appear. Politicians’ statements in social networks often contain an actualized subjective dominant, which allows to affect the information perception by the recipient. At the same time, in the texts of official documents, the actional dominant is brought to the forefront, which is directly related to the participants’ actions.

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Nina A. Tribunskaya

Samara National Research University

Email: dahati@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6012-3016

Senior teacher of the Department of Foreign and Latin Languages

Russian Federation, 34, Moskovskoye shosse (St.), Samara, 443086, Russian Federation

Anna A. Pustarnakova

Samara National Research University

Author for correspondence.
Email: aa.pustarnakova@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5393-6249

Candidate degree in Sociology, associate professor of the Department of Sociology and Cultural Studies

Russian Federation, 34, Moskovskoye shosse (St.), Samara, 443086, Russian Federation

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