LANGUAGE MODELLING OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN POLITICAL MEDIA DISCOURSE (cases of Presidential New Year TV addresses and Appeals to the Federal Assemble)
To define the key discursive elements and means for construction of national identity we built the corpus of texts of all New Year TV messages of the Russian President from 2000 to 2018, and the texts of Appeals to the Federal Assembly from 2012 to 2018. We used the program AntConc to process the corpus, and to find key words (lemmas), clusters (n-gramms) and concordances with the main linguistic markers of national identity,. The analysis showed that the meaning of national identity is represented in the corpus by the nominations “people”, “compatriots”, “peoplehood”, “citizens” and “citizens of Russia”. The thematization of these concepts results in mainly economic, (geo)political and socio-psychological categorization, while the concept “peoplehood” is constructed rather in subjective and agentive than in objective terms.