Linguistic portrait of an era in personal discursive practices of military and government officials
The article presents the results of the application of Michel Foucault’s archaeology method to the analysis of discursive formations corresponding to particular historical periods of human society’s development. It is noted that the discursive practices should be based on the category of «values» - a universal stimulus for the development of civilization and the criterion of the level of its development. The author singles out six core values which have been determining the state of public consciousness throughout human history: heroic, religious, state, national, social, and supernational.