REMEMBERING THE CHILDHOOD... (ONE TyPE OF PRECEDENT PHENOMENA IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE)
The article covers the usage of precedent phenomena with the source domain fromchildren’s books in modern political discourse. Based on the materials of Russian National Corpus, three groups of precedent phenomena are discussed: 1) motivated by folklore fairy-tail, 2) connected with the children’s stories by the Russian writers, 3) connected with foreign children’s literature. Practically all members of the Russian linguocultural community have perceptional invariant of precedent texts from children’s books. This fact explains the frequent metaphorical usage of these phenomena.Verbal precedent phenomena connected with visual image are the most wide spread phenomena. Based on the texts under study, speech patterns with precedent phenomena used in political discourse are singeld out: precedent names, characterizing politicians; precedent names and statements, describing space; precedent phenomena, correlating with political situations. Precedent phenomena from children’s books do not create the opposition “own” - “alien”, but in some cases precedent phenomena from foreign text are the signs of alen culture and need linguocultural comment. In political context precedent phenomena can broaden their semantics under the influence of linguistic and extralingustic factors.