SPECIFICITY OF THE MODERN INAUGURATION DISCOURSE OF RUSSIA AND THE USA (BASED ON INAUGURAL SPEECHES)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to an analysis of inaugural speeches of politicians of Russia and the United States of America, namely V. Putin, D. Medvedev, D. Trump and B. Obama. The main content of the study is the analysis of the speeches of politicians during the inauguration ceremony in pragmatic and axiological aspects: dominant strategies and tactics used by the presidents of the countries are highlighted, described and compared, as well as concepts representing the value picture of the world of the Russian and American people. The relevance of the topic is connected with the growing importance of studying features of modern political discourses of countries for linguoculturology and political linguistics. The problem of the work lies in the insufficient study of the similarities and differences of the inaugural discourse of Russia and America from the point of view of linguoculturology, which hinders effective intercultural interaction in the field of politics. Based on the study of the material, it was found that the presidents of both Russia and the United States adhere to a strategy of theatricality, but Russian politicians also follow a strategy to increase, and American ones follow a strategy to decrease. Results obtained in the course of the described study highlight features of the political consciousness of representatives of two different linguistic cultures, which in practice makes it possible to increase the effectiveness of speech interaction in intercultural communication.