INTENTIONAL ATTITUDES OF COMMENTATORS AS SUBJECTS OF NON-PROFESSIONAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article discusses a problem of determining intentions of political commentators on the web. The basic pragmatic category of intention is determined in accordance with the paradigm of the communicative roles of the comments’ authors. The paper considers in more detail options for the implementation of the macro-intention “I comment”, determined by the communicative role of the commentator as a subject of non-professional political discourse. Based on the analysis of the discourse of commentaries in Russian and English, three main intentions of the discourse subject have been identified: evaluative, ascertaining and adapting. These intentional attitudes receive a variable implementation in the discourse of amateurs. In particular, the ascertaining intention is implemented in accordance with the principle “from politics to everyday life” and, conversely, “from everyday life to politics”.