The Functional-Linguistic Aspects of Political Discourse

Abstract

The article analyzes the general trends of linguistic strategy of the political discourse, in particular, some of the linguis-tic features and the functional aspects of the modern political discourse in western and Georgian political interaction. Our goal is to analyze the impact of objective and subjective circumstances on the formation of political discourse and by what means does the language of politics manage public consciousness. After we have studied the patterns of oral political discourse, we came to the conclusion that the functional-linguistic aspects, goals and methods of modern Georgian political interaction are not different in fact from the western. The “discursive domination” method is used in Georgian political space to create a different “mental model” of the situation with the maximum concentration of relevant linguistic or extra linguistic factors.The research methods are mainly empirical-experimental. For analyzes we used an oral political speech, video and audio recordings.