Baran Н. The Objectification of the Concept RECESSION in Contemporary English Political Internet Discourse: Linguistic, Cognitive, Semiotic and Communicative-Pragmatic Aspects

This dissertation focuses on revealing specific features of the objectification of the concept RECESSION in contemporary English political Internet discourse in linguistic, cognitive, semiotic, communicative and pragmatic perspectives. It suggests a comprehensive methodology for exposing the dominant features of the concept RECESSION in political Internet discourse, such as mythic and policode nature. The nuclear entities of the notional layer of the analyzed concept as well as its metaphorical actualization in the discourse demonstrate its ambivalent character. It has been proved that political discourse is a complex communicative phenomenon which contains not only thematically united texts but extra-linguistic political, economic, cultural and social factors. Two types of texts (primary and secondary) have been distinguished for genre differentiation of political Internet discourse. It is argued that communicative and pragmatic strategies and tactics of the realization of the concept RECESSION ensure the perlocutionary effect on the reader and justify social and political orientation of contemporary English political Internet discourse. Key words: concept RECESSION, political Internet discourse, genres of political discourse, primary texts, secondary texts, communicative-pragmatic strategies and tactics.