The features of the implementation of precedent phenomenon "the sword of Damocles" in political mass media
This article discusses the features of the implementation of the precedent phenomenon of «Sword of Damocles» in the texts of political media, identified to transformation methods of the investigated the phenomenon and its structural and semantic features. In the article the basic functions are concretized of precedent phenomenon of political texts and released one of the most significant sources of precedent units - mythology that appeals to a system of knowledge about the world. The material for analysis were the political media texts for the years 2010-2016. Precedent phenomena considered in the context of political discourse with reference to Greek mythology. All language funds involved in the representation of the object of study, distributed in accordance with the individual author receptions expressive use of precedent units. The article presents the author's model of precedent phenomenon and methods of its transformation caused by lexical and grammatical features of the precedent unit.