The theoretical studies’ development of political linguistics in the Ukrainian science

Abstract

The article is represented and analyzed the last modern researches in Ukrainian political linguistics; reviewed the actual problem of political Ukrainian-speaking investigations in the political linguistics’ area. There are pragmatic, function, typological aspects; semantic paradoxes; idiostyle of politicians; communicative side of the political image etc. Also the author compares different interpretation approaches of the basic concepts of political linguistics: “political discourse”, “political language” and noted the necessity for clarification and unification.

It is defined and illustrated such specific features of Ukrainian political discourse such as: variability, transience, dynamism, the appearance of a large number of new concepts, political vectors and a completely different interpretation of the old ones. These ones are related and argued by new sociopolitical phenomena that appeared after the most important and the biggest historical events of Ukraine (The Revolution of Dignity, military aggression of Russia on territory of the East Ukraine and annexation of the Crimea etc.). The author points one side of the problem to determine subject and object in nowadays Ukrainian political discourse: about the place of public organizations in modern Ukrainian politics and place of the most popular bloggers between another sources of political discourse. The prospective directions of scientific linguistic research in Ukrainian politics linguistic are outlined in the purpose study. There are investigation of Ukrainian-speaking political discourse, its’ semiotic system, semantic concepts, functional and typology characteristics, suggestive-persuasive possibilities different language units in it etc.