Мовний портрет лідера в сучасному англомовному дискурсі

Abstract

The aim of this workis to study the features of the linguistic portrait of the leader in Modern English-language political discourse.To achieve this goal the following objectiveswere set:1)to determine the theoretical foundations of the study of the concept “discourse”in linguistics; 2)to characterize the typology of discourses;3) to explore verbal and nonverbal aspects of discourse;4)to distinguish the concepts of “linguistic personality”and “linguistic portrait”;5)toconsider approaches to the study of the linguistic portrait of a modern political leader;6) to characterize pragmatic, communicative, stylistic, lexical and grammatical means of expressing the linguistic portrait of a political leader;7) to analyze thelinguistic portraits of American and British political leaders in a comparative aspect