The article describes the characteristic features of
British political discourse, its historical development
and the formation and characteristics of the British
sense of humor. We noted that political humor reflects
the mood and attitude of trends in politics. Political
discourse has been viewed as socially-oriented
communication, which is in the nature of persuasive
and compelling communication, dominated by the
imperative type of speech, which, in turn, creates
preconditions for the implementation of the comic. We
have defined defamatory, socially critical, and
harmonizing functions. Special attention is paid to the
role of the addressee, as the factor, which determines
the political communication's aim. We have observed
that British politicians use humor carefully so as not to
provoke their opponents and dissenters in mocking
their use of humor or turning their statements against
themselves. The article contains the analysis of
illustrative material consisting of quotations of the
British political and public figures. English humor can
be studied from the point of view of transformational
grammar, in which case the jokes are divided into
prosaic and poetic ones. Prosaic jokes are based on
social and cultural situations, human interactions.
Poetical jokes are based on grammatical forms and
their irregular usage
The peculiarities of the author strategies by
Mikhail Elizarov are analyzed in the article. His
works "balance" on the verge of postmodernist and
realistic practice. The author's prose has received
mixed reviews in the critique that’s why to reveal
its aesthetic component, problem and poetological
levels is an actual problem of the philological
science, which is aimed to recreate a complete
picture of the morden literary process. An
analytical review of the works which reveals
stylistic features of M. Elizarov's prose is given as
well as the analysis of the author's interview
concerning the artistic conception of works that
indicate the representative specific of his artistic
worldview. The latter is associated with the project
of the «new realism» which was declared in the
beginning of the XXI century. The need to display
the word «changes» and «faults» of the age to
simulate image of the hero «of its time» is an
artistic problem which is solved by adherents of the
«new» literature, with all sincerity, and often with
peremptoriness of the ideological evaluations.
«New realist» Zakhar Prilepin definitely sees
Mikhail Elizarov as ally and like-minded person in
its implementation. The objectivity of this
statement is not in the «generational», the agerelated
community but in a deep interest in the
man's fate, the history of his personality and desire
to «write» on the background of its changeable,
controversial and, at times, tragic reality
The article analyzes the literary prose by Olga
Slavnikova in the context of the literature of the late
XX – early XXI centuries. The work of the writer is
poorly investigated; the study of it is presented in
modern literature only in the form of reviews and
analysis of some of the concepts and motives. Scientific
paper actualizes the problem of artistic method in the
works of the writer. It is difficult to classify into one
particular artistic method the work of many modern
writers. The installations of several trends intersect in
works some of them, even contradictory sometimes.
Creativity by Olga Slavnikova isn’t exception in this
series. At all levels of her prose, we have revealed
various aspects that characterize the work of
Slavnikova from the point of view of postmodernism,
magical realism and women's prose. Categories of
Death and Emptiness, the idea is the signified of
existence and the illusory nature of the real are purely
postmodernist, from the point of view of magical
realism examines the images of metaphysical beings
and the other world, also mentions personal and
psychological motives as an art installation of women’s
prose. Furthermore, with a postmodern understanding
of reality realistic psychology characterized for all
works, some constants of postmodernism are revealed
using style settings of magical realism
Combinativity of speech strategies and tactics in a
public political address as markers of a general
intention within a framework of a background strategy
of self-presentation is considered. The research
methods of speech architectonic are determined.
Structural and composite elements of a presidential
speech are analyzed. Communicative strategies and
tactics as means of an effective self-presentation are
described
The article considers combinativity of speech
strategies and tactics in a public political address as
markers of a general intention within a framework of
a background strategy of self-presentation. The
research methods of speech architectonic are
determined. Structural and composite elements of a
presidential speech are analyzed. Communicative
strategies and tactics as means of an effective
self-presentation are described
Features of musical culture in Russia during the Civil
War are considered in the article. The author analyzes
various musical genres, which have arisen during this
period, and emphasizes characteristics of musical song
creativity of that time. The involvement of song
creativity into realities of surrounding life was its
striking trait. It has been directly connected with
military-political opposition of 1917 developed in Russia
after October revolution. The author analyzes
similarities and distinctions, and also genre features in
song creativity of representatives of two militarypolitical
camps – the Reds (Bolsheviks and their
supporters) and the Whites (representatives of the antiBolshevist
movement). The author reveals their
characteristics and specifics of genre lyrics. The sources
of song creativity of the Civil War period were in thickly
national consciousness; and song creativity of those
years quite often had a wide national basis. At the same
time musical song creativity of representatives of two
military-political camps was crossed among themselves
as they belonged to one culture. Military-political
opponents quite often used the same songs, the same
genre features. Cultural communication between
representatives of different social groups and political
forces in the years of Civil War was not interrupted and
it was strong, despite all shocks
Verity as the basic criterion of argumentive sphere is
positioned in the article from the notion of its
relevance including discursive semantic number of
concepts. Integrative character of the problem at the
junction of logics, psychology and linguistics is
presented. Thus, according to theoretical colligation
interpretive abilities of components of the categorical
sphere of argumentation (knowledge, modality,
causality) are considered. It is possible to make a
conclusion that discursive character of argumentation
determines the actualization of the appropriate
strategies
The questions of bilingualism and linguo-didactic
solution of the problem of formation of the
communicative personality of a bilingual are
considered in the article. The linguistic status of
bilingualism and its characteristics haven’t acted as a
subject of special scientific research yet. The object of
studying of this work is the bilingualism as a linguistic
phenomenon. The work purpose is to differentiate an
explanation of the linguistic status of bilingualism and
to justify of its characteristics. Goals and tasks during
research are solved. This material is up-to-date, owing
to the following reasons: 1) despite the widespread
phenomenon of bilingualism in modern society, its
characteristics are considered only from the point of
view of psychology and linguo-didactic, 2) the
analysis of bilingualism will open new opportunities
in studying of other sciences. Scientific novelty of
research is establishment the distinctive features of
bilingualism and this work can be used as the analysis
of processes of interaction of languages and cultures
Political newspaper text as an element of political
newspaper discourse was analyzed, the structure of
political newspaper communication is represented,
relations between the communicator and the recipient
are demonstrated, and the main characteristics of the
political newspaper text and its argumentative
structure are described
The article deals with the typology of media
discourse, we have also studied the mechanisms of
impact on the audience, identifying and analyzing the
linguistic and paralinguistic means of influence on
the examples of certain types of discourse: insincere,
political, ritual, religious, advertising, including
media discourse. The author of this research
proposes to consider the definition of a variety of
Russian and foreign linguists, pointing out that the
concept "of the mass media discourse" refers to the
problematic field of mass communication as a
process of information exchange between all the
actors of society, aimed at shaping public opinion
about socially significant piece of social life. Mass
communication as a kind of verbal activity "is due to
the social process in which the function is updated
using a variety of communication tools and
channels." As a source of social and mass
communication, we highlight a social institution or
"collegiate sender", producing a total of texts a
certain type of consciousness and the installation for
a particular type of pragmatism - the goals and
aspirations of expectations. Recipient of the mass
media messages is a broad mass audience, it is not
homogeneous, and so the text of the mass media
should be clear to the mass consumer