Abstract

Any text is a product of author’s contemplation aimed at the discourse and new contemplation. The same can be said about the political text. The political text greatly depends on the cultural situation of the particular historical period. The present study analyses the functioning of the political text in Russia today. As the epistemological tool in the present article, we used the modern research of applied aspects in the political contemplation and political discourse. The applied relevance of the present article is conditioned by new (“network”) forms of the discourse in the XXI century. As a result of the analysis, the following conclusions have been made: 1) the crisis-conditioned character of the modern politics and culture has an immediate impact on the functioning of the political text in Russia; 2) in the present-day conditions, the communication between the subject and the object of the political text has changed dramatically; 3) the notion of the “political text” itself, existing in the context of the historical change, have long ago gained a new applied content that needs contemplation. The conclusions of the present study are aimed at realizing a very important factor: the drive for renovation of the language of the political science due to critical changes in the modern Russia has more and more supporters. In the world of global projects and total leveling that seduce people, the culture of political contemplation as a kind of an “art of survival” has gained critical importance.

Keywords:

Applied discourse, contemplation, modern culture, political text, Russian politics,

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