LEXICAL AND SYNTACTIC PECULIARITIES OF UKRAINIAN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

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INTRODUCTION Political communication has become a popular subject of scientific interest today. The problematics of political linguistics in Ukrainian science is quite large-scale and covers both general theoretical issues and the study of particular aspects of political communication. The foundations of political discourse theory were laid in the 1950s of the XX century by representatives of Cambridge and Oxford schools of philosophy who analysed the linguistic context of the public thought. The theoretical bases for the development of this problematics are laid in the works of T.A. van Dijk 1 , R. Bart 2 . Political discourse came in the view of linguists in the 70ʼs of the XX century. The series of scientific reserches has emerged; there the features of political communication were discussed. in details or briefly. that discusses. Subsequently, a new branch of linguistics – political linguistics – began to develop. The proponents of this trend studied specific units within political texts (works of: A. M. Baranova, Yu. M. Karaulova 3 , N. Kupina 4 , O. L. Mykhaleva 5 , A. P. Chudinov 6 , O. I. Sheihal 7 and others). The monographs of L. P. Nahorna 8 , N. Kondratenko 9 has appeared in the national linguistics.