Political myth and phantom enemy

  • E. N. Molodychenko
Keywords: model, political discourse, reality, recontextualization

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of lexico-grammatical, semantic and rhetoric language means of recontextualizing reality in political discourse. On the basis of the analysis of American presidents’ discourse it is concluded that the most efficient and widely spread methods of modeling an alternative reality in this discoursive space are nominalization, semantic ambiguity, over-lexicalization, and metaphorization.

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Published
2018-09-13
How to Cite
Molodychenko, E. N. (2018). Political myth and phantom enemy. Cognition, Communication, Discourse, (4), 56-62. https://doi.org/10.26565/2218-2926-2012-04-04