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Текстовое моделирование образа врага в истории и политике (на материале текстов президентского дискурса США)
This article undertakes an analysis of textual representation of enemy image in American political discourse spanning the past 50 years. It is contended that textual actualization of the enemy is the projection of the basic semiotic category of the ‘other’ which is perpetuated in political discourse and is lexicalized differently depending on the text’s instantiating a particular order of discourse and the ideology informing it. The ways in which the category is actualized in texts in terms of lexis, grammar, macro- and micro-strategies remain almost intact, despite the change of socio-economic orders and specific referents invoked in texts as enemies. Constructing enemy image in texts is contended to be the driving force of discursive construction of social world, maintaining social patterns and legitimizing actions in the best interest of specific political actors.