Russia-Georgia War in Public Discourse on British Web-sites
Modern international conflicts are solved not only by means of force and arms, but with the help of intellect and propaganda. Political and media discourses become hot spots, where severe battles between the rivals are staged. Thus, the whole world community gets involved into the media wars. In the context of media fights, knowing how to decode pragmatic units and metaphors which conceptualize the war and its participants is a must. As a rule, linguistic researches are devoted to cognitive analysis of political and media discourses as such. I suggest considering public discourse: blogs, comments to articles, TV surveys, letters to editors, etc.