Genre Of Political Discourse Research Articles

New Year Address as a Genre of Political Discourse: Political and Linguistic Research (On the Material of Chinese President Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping)

The urgency of the problem under investigation is due to the increased role on the world stage of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese political leaders. The purpose of this article is to disclose by means of a detailed analysis the New Year congratulations not only of the linguistic portrait of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping, but also the main achievements and new directions in foreign and domestic policy of the country. The leading approaches to research this problem are a descriptive method; analytical method; comparative and comparative-historical methods which allowed to disclose and analyze fully the content of speeches of Presidents of the People's Republic of China. In the given article we consider the journalistic style as one of makrostyles of the Chinese language; official texts of New Year speeches of political leaders of the People's Republic of China in the XXI century are studied and analyzed fully; stylistic, specific and political features in Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping's speeches are revealed. The materials of the article can be useful for experts, engaged in studying not only Chinese stylistics, but also the Russian-Chinese relations at the present stage, for employees and teachers of humanitarian disciplines of higher education institutions and research centers. It is also recommended for undergraduate students, post-graduate students and students of the higher school with profound research preparation.

COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE OF COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOR IN GENDER ASPECT

The article is devoted to the description of the specifics of communicative behavior of Kazakhstani women-politicians The gender aspect influences on presentation of a language image of society at all language levels and on the base of communicative material. Parametric model for description the specifics of gender communicative behavior proves the factual presence the gender differences in modern political discourse. Explicit and implicit language means as gender markers serve for description the aspects of political communicative behavior. Quantitative results of this comparative analysis from the position of gender differentiation demonstrate the intensification of gender asymmetry of Kazakhstani women-politicians, and this fact can be explained by the peculiarity of interview as a genre of political discourse.

The World of Politics in the Russian Political Anekdot

This article is an attempt to study how the world of politics is conceptualized in modern Russian political anekdot. The paper starts by discussing the importance of political anekdot in the Russian culture of the XX century. We then review the status of anekdot as a secondary genre of political discourse, and describe the major themes and characters in Russian political anekdot. Further, the article looks at anekdots about Vladimir Putin in order to reveal the manifestation of values, peculiar to this genre, and to disclose the cognitive mechanisms of humorous/satirical transformation of political reality.