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Lasitsa L.A. NEW YEAR'S ADDRESS OF THE HEAD OF STATE: SEMANTIC FEATURES OF THE RITUAL GENRE OF POLITICAL DISCOURSEIn modern linguistics the New Year's speech of the head of state is considered as a ritual genre of a political discourse as it possesses a number of extralinguistic, structural and semantic signs of a ritual: recurrence; ritual attributes; its own history; communicative purpose, accurate requirements to the addressee, sender and occasion; obligatory structural elements. The president of Russia V.V. Putin and the queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II also address residents of their countries with the New Year's speech. In this work we will study such semantic features of the New Year's speeches as the communicative purpose, addressee, sender of the message. The main communicative purpose for the New Year's speech and the Christmas message is unity of the nation, respect for traditions of communication, demonstration of kind and respectful attitude for the people, summing up the events of the year, plans for the future. The queen reflects of the importance of a family, tolerance, mutual assistance, Christian concepts of good will, mutual assistance, blessing in the Christmas message through a prism of own life. The message comes to the end with a wish of Merry Christmas. The New Year's speech of the president is more formal — he never speaks about his own life, uses a minimum of factual information, giving general characteristics of the expiring year. A fixed substantial component is the appeal to family values, a wish of the benefits and a congratulation. The addressee of the New Year's speech of the president is the whole country and each individual separately. In the Christmas message there is no explicitly expressed addressee. The Christmas message is performed from 1 person, the author and the sender is Elizabeth II. A sender of the New Year's speech is the president V.V. Putin, however, he uses a pronoun we, creating feeling of the participation in the big country.Key words: political discourse, ritual genre of a political discourse, president of Russia, communicative purpose, addressee, sender.

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Author: Lasitsa L.A.

Year: 2017

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