Features of Discursive Structures in Political Communication

• Published in: Aktualʹnye problemy filologii i pedagogičeskoj lingvistiki no. 4; pp. 38 - 50
• Main Authors: Shevchenko, Vyacheslav D., Tribunskaya, Nina A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; German
• Published: Publishing and Printing Center NOSU 25.12.2021
• Subjects: discursive heterogeneity; discursive structures; interdiscursiveness; political discourse; polydiscursiveness; situation model
• ISSN: 2079-6021; 2619-029X
• DOI: 10.29025/2079-6021-2021-4-38-50

This article is devoted to the study of the discursive structures of political texts published on Twitter of the President of the United States. The material of the study was the statements of Donald Trump and Joe Biden during the period from November 1, 2019 to August 31, 2021. Its multimillion audience of subscribers makes Twitter a powerful political tool with the ability to influence public opinion. The purpose of this article is to identify the discursive structures arising in political communication as a result of the actualization of the category of discursive heterogeneity, which includes elements of interdiscursiveness and polydiscursiveness. The authors use various methods: descriptive, contextual analysis, comparative, methods of observation, content analysis and discourse analysis. Using the linguistic concept of the American scientist D. Himes S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G, the analysis of the situation components Setting and scene, Participants, Ends, Act Sequence, Key, Instrumentalities, Norms, Genre is carried out. Being a part of the media discourse and demonstrating the features of the Internet genre, the written messages of politicians are laconic, expressive, and tend to economize on linguistic means. The same communicants, depending on the context of utterances, become participants in different types of discourses. The study analyzes the foreign and domestic political discourses, the security discourse, as well as a number of accompanying special discourses that constitute political communication. The choice of the subject matter of the messages is due to the high degree of importance of issues of foreign and domestic policy, as well as stability and security.