The Influence of Political Discourse on the Formation of the Language Personality of a Politician
https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2021-19-4-151-166
Abstract
The current paper sums up the results of the dissertation research conducted by the author at the Moscow Region State University which was supervised by Professor Ye. A. Sorokina, Doctor of Philology. The relevance of the chosen research topic is determined by anthropocentrism of modern linguistics which manifests itself in progressive development of personology, including linguistic personology and political linguistic personology as one of the emerging scientific disciplines that is not yet fully separated from political linguistics. This article looks at some new issues of political linguistics, one of which is the notion of linguopersoneme, and suggests several types of linguistic personemes: the mythmaker, the actor, the alarmist, the gentleman (the lady), the aggressor, and the marginal. Most of these notions and terms were used in our previous articles and yet it is only now that we present a more or less holistic vision of the complex and versatile phenomenon of the language personality of a politician. In our opinion, the language personality of a politician is a variety of a creative professional language personality, to some extent comparable to the people working in such professional spheres as show business, sport, art, etc. The language personality of a politician is formed in political discourse, as follows from the sociological theories by P. Bourdieu and M. Foucault. It was found that the main characteristics of political discourse manifest themselves in the politician’s language personality in a specific way, thus forming its structure, which up to this moment was predominately described in terms of Yu. N. Karaulov’s influential theory. These are verbal-semantic, cognitive and pragmatic levels of the language personality.
About the Author
A. B. Alexeyev
Moscow Regional Branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexander B. Alexeyev, Candidate of Sciences (Philology)
Kransnogorsk
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Alexeyev A.B. The Influence of Political Discourse on the Formation of the Language Personality of a Politician. NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication. 2021;19(4):151-166. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2021-19-4-151-166
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