THE LATEST RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS OF CHINESE SPECIALISTS IN POLITICAL LINGUISTICS
This is a review of the monograph “New Year Addresses of the Leaders of USSR and Russia: Analysis of Discursive and Genre Peculiarities” by Jian Chun-Li and Yang Ke (Changsha, “People’s publishing house”, 2017. 255 p.). Analysis of political discourse is a popular field of modern linguistics and it has a long tradition in Russia, especially the analysis of politicians’ discourses and genres of their discourses. The study of political discourse in China is a relatively new field of research, especially in the frames of Russian studies. The monograph is based on 61 New Year addresses by the leaders of the USSR and Russia (1941 - 2015). The introduction presents a general description of the current state of political linguistics, the theory of speech genres and the study of New Year addresses in China and abroad. The first chapter gives a general description of political discourse, specifies the place of New Year address in the system of its genres and identifies the functions of this genre (cumulative, social-integrative, factological, inspiratory and aesthetic). The second chapter analyzes micro- and macro-structures of the New Year address and makes a conclusion that it is similar to the other genres of political discourse (for example, address to people or congratulation). New Year address is analyzed from the point of view of the theory of intertextuality. The third chapter studies the linguistic features of the texts of New Year addresses (the typical vocabulary, syntactical constructions and stylistic devices). The monograph may serve as the basis for comparative analysis of New Year addresses in Russian and Chinese.