Abstract
The article surveys peculiarities of a political language personality’s autobiographical discourse. Through the analysis of the autobiographical discourse, the specific features of the genre are revealed; its peculiarities in objectifying
 political reality are detected. The study material is a book of memoirs «Decision Points» by the 43d President of the USA George W. Bush, in which he describes landmark events in his personal and professional life and tries to explain what or who moved him forward in choosing complicated and provocative
 routes.
 In the analyses the author identifies genre-forming features of works, as well as the features in the objectification of political reality. The politician’s memoirs are distinguished not through accurate narration of factual evidence as much as through the aim to develop a certain view of the historical period in the
 reader and through the desire to cultivate a certain opinion in them. For this
 reason the reminiscent must strike an ideal balance in supplying objective and
 subjective evidence. A combination of unprejudiced narration and personal considerations,
 the author’s reflections on his reasons for decision-making, admission
 of guilt and not being right in some crucial moments add to the emotional
 disposition of the text and make it more convincing. Pragmatic actuality is
 achieved through rendering historical and famous facts, dates, and contemporary
 records.
 Within this article the onomastic space of G.W. Bush’s memoirs has ben
 analysed, which helps to reveal that most of the onyms (anthroponyms, zoonyms,
 chrematonyms, ethnonyms, socionyms, ergonyms, toponyms) and to testify to
 their credibility. The conclusion is made that the objective evidence is exposed
 to careful selection and is to accord with the pragmatic intention of the subject
 of reminiscence; the subjective evidence allows to fill the text with emotional
 substance and to plunge the reader in the thick of things.
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