№ 4 - 2006
Rusakova O.F., Maksimov D.A.
Political Discoursology: Subject Field, Theoretical Approaches, and a Structural Model of Political Discourse

The article presents an attempt to analytically summarize modern — whether foreign or Russian — theories of political discourse, as well as methodological approaches to discourse-analysis of politics. Pointing to the impetuous development of theoretical and methodological researches of political discourse, the authors advance a suggestion that in the family of modern Humanities a new discipline may crop up before long — political discoursology, whose subject field will be constituted both by general theoretical problems related to the nature, structure, and functions of political discourse, and by more particular questions dealing with concrete varieties of this discourse (e.g. discourses of national, supranational and regional identities; democratic and authoritarian discourses; discourses of civicism, of racism and of populism; discourses of different socio-political movements and parties; parliamentary discourse and newscasting one; discourse of television debates on politics etc.). The article also presents a structural model of public discourse as a variety of political one, thus clearing the way for more profound comprehension of the nature and peculiarity of the phenomenon in question.