Дискурсивный подход к анализу политической метафоры

The article highlights some features of the discourse approach to political metaphor analysis in contemporary linguistics. It is argued that in American and European linguistics discourse approach embraces a number of particular theories and methodologies such as critical discourse analysis, descriptive discourse analysis, discursive theory of democratization, discursive analysis of social structures, crisis communication combination theory (CCC-theory), the discursive notion of metaphor. In Russian linguistics a discourse approach to political metaphor analysis is mainly represented by the cognitive-discursive paradigm.