The Concept of “Political Discourse”

This article is determined by the key role of political discourse in the formation of public consciousness. It becomes an instrument of mass manipulation, an expression of dominance or discrimination. Identification and characterization of methods of such influence are becoming increasingly important in the framework of modern linguistics. “Political discourse and its specifics” highlights the features of the concepts of “political discourse" in modern linguistics and approaches to their analysis, provides genre and also defines the phenomenon of interdiscursivity