THE STRUCTURE OF THE GENRE «PUBLIC SPEECH OF A POLITICIAN» IN MODERN ENGLISH DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article examines the structure of modern English political discourse's «public speech of a politician» genre. Nowadays, one of the urgent issues of modern linguistics is the study of discourse in terms of the speech behavior of a person in the broad context of his life activities in society. Directly, "discourse" is multifaceted and is used with different meanings.
In the study, the authors used President Volodymyr Zelenskyi's speeches to the legislative bodies of other countries and online appeals to the world community regarding the Russian-Ukrainian war. The research proves that compositional clarity is essential in constructing the «public speech of a politician» genre. According to many researchers, the addressee needs to have a sense of proportion in the volume: the speech should be the topic and facts required at most. In particular, three blocks can be distinguished in the composition: – greetings to the audience; – the main part, and the summary. Each block differs in the corresponding graphic and linguistic stylistic embodiment. Attention is focused on convincing the audience and taking into account socio-cultural and historical factors, professional characteristics of listeners, and regional differences. The authors note that in each block, the president of Ukraine carefully chooses words to emphasize the importance of what he said. Using repetitions in his speeches, he expresses respect for the countries' leaders, appeals to the world community, and strives to build close associative ties between Ukraine and the states, to which he addresses and outlines the tragic nature of the current situation.