Genres of Political Media Discourse

The article is devoted to the systematization and description of genre-forming and discourse-forming features of the genres of political media discourse. Firstly, such notions as politics, power, discourse, political discourse, political journalism are correlated. Political communication, which is carried out with the use of a political language on political topics with the participation of politicians, together with textual traditions and non-textual conditions is called political discourse. Secondly, political media discourse is examined in terms of the presence of genres of different nature in it. They may relate more to political communication or journalism. In the discourse formation, various aspects of the categories that determine discourse are involved; as a result, texts of different genres are generated. Genres here are stable groups of publications united by similar formal and content features. Formal and content features are genre-forming; they are also differentiating for genres. Using the traditional methodology for analyzing genre-forming features, the article describes the complex of the identified differentiating features for the genres that make up the space of political media discourse, thereby refining and expanding the idea of this "space". Genres are characterized by the complex of the identified differentiating features. The latter are divided into groups: "formal" (written/oral, small/medium/large), macro-textual (institutional nature, sender-receiver relationships, sociocultural orientation, event localization, genre belonging to the core/periphery of the discourse space), micro-textual (subject and purpose, function, language, methods of reality reflection). The article differentiates the genres of political media discourse on the basis of purpose and subject, subject and function, subject and reflection methods. It also presents some features of political vocabulary and political terminology, features of political vocabulary in terms of diachronic stability and semantic uncertainty, which is expressed as the abstractness and breadth of the meaning of some words. It gives examples of the fact that in terms of language and style the genres of political media discourse are characterized by increased persuasiveness and evaluation.

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