Linguistic and gender peculiarities of english political discourse

Abstract

Political discourse is a type of language related to the sphere of politics and to speaking in a certain situational context, and is aimed at achieving a particular pragmaticsemantic outcome using verbal or non-verbal means of expressiveness. Within this discourse a new system of values (social, socio-political), as well as a system of diverse ideas and views is created. One of the most important functions of political discourse is that of persuasion and political propaganda. Grammatical, morphological and syntactic means play an important role in achieving the communicative goals of political discourse. Political discourse has a number of peculiarities depending on the politician’s gender, that can be traced in the stylistic, lexical, syntactic, cultural-social, grammatical characteristics of the discourse elements.