POLITICAL TEXTS LANGUAGE AND STYLE OF THE EARLY ХХ CENTURY

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T. P. Rogozhnikova,
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Professor of chair of Russian language Slavic and classical linguistics, Dostoevsky Omsk State University, 55a Mira Ave., Omsk, 644077, Russian Federation
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4821-8987
Author ID Scopus 57194836730
e-mail: pmtr@mail.ru

POLITICAL TEXTS LANGUAGE AND STYLE OF THE EARLY ХХ CENTURY

Introduction. The political appeals in regional sources of the pre-revolutionary era are investigated. The aim is to identify the communicative and genre parameters determining the specifics of political texts language and style.

Methods and methodology. The methodology is based on the demonstration of the effectiveness to combine the complex of modern Humanities and historical style achievements in relation to the political text study as a product of historically defined political discourse.

Results. The studied sources are products of both professional and non-professional political communication and are pure propaganda, it becomes evident because of a large number of expressive means (both genetically vernacular and Church Slavonic), metaphorical expressions, a rich potential of rhetorical techniques. The texts style varies from a lively conversation to a lofty (sometimes pathetic, sometimes ironically sarcastic) monologue.

Conclusions. The dependence of texts linguistic and stylistic characteristics from the genre of intentions, communicative tasks and conditions of text generation and the authors’ political platform is shown on the example of political communication primary genres.

Keywords: political text, pre-revolutionary appeal, expressiveness, stylistic and rhetorical means.

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