AUTHOR’S MASTER’S PROGRAMMES ON THE COGNITIVE-DISCURSIVE TEXT ANALYSIS AND METHODOLOGY OF THE DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS AND THEIR PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION

The article deals with original author’s master’s course programs on disciplines “Theory and Practice of Cognitive-Discursive Text Analysis” which is being taught at Northern (Arctic) Federal University as part of master’s courses of educational direction “Philology” (educational program specialization “Linguistic Judiciary Support of Communicative Activity”), and “Methodology of Discursive Analysis”, which is being studied at Nizhniy Novgorod State Pedagogical University as part of master’s courses of educational direction “Pedagogical Education” (educational program specialization “Linguistic Communication and Practical Journalism”). The tasks of master’s courses programs connected with their profiles’ peculiarities are being differentiated on the basis of their analysis. Special attention is paid to the research object - the discourse. The educational program specialization “Pedagogical Education” has special professional discourses as its’ study object including the system of mass media communication as well, while that of “Philology” (educational program specialization “Linguistic Judiciary Support of Communicative Activity”) has conflict discourses as its main object of study which allows to solve problems of communicative behavior of man in specific social situations. This results in proving that the logic of the author’s programs contents arrangement is conditioned by educational direction and educational program specialization of the master’s course, determining the course’s tasks and has professional and practice-oriented character