In the article forensic prosecutor's speech as a speech genre is considered. The purpose of this article is to reveal the features of the stereotyped speech behavior of public prosecutors in the speech genre of the speech for the prosecution. The main difference between one genre from another one is not in its linguistic features, although each of the genres is characterized by the predominance, or, conversely, the absence of certain linguistic elements, but in the content orientation of a text and its functional purpose. Moreover, the purpose is to identify these peculiarities, first, it is important to determine the status of this speech genre. The composition of the prosecutor's speech in court is described. It is established that the speech for the prosecution consists of the following parts: 1) opening statement; 2) exposition of the factual circumstances of the act, the plot of the case; 3) analysis and evaluation of collected evidence of the case; 4) argumentation of determination the nature of the crime; 5) characteristics of the defendant and the victim; 6) proposals for the sentence or the verdict; 7) issues of compensation for the offense caused; 8) analysis of the causes and conditions that contributed to the offense, proposals to eliminate them; 9) conclusion. The speech for the prosecution contains the features of publicistic, official, scientific and colloquial styles, influences on the addressee.

In the article, we realize the aim of the study. We identify the role of metaphor in the political media discourse as an important part of the mental political portrait. The paper deals with the analysis of Chancellor's metaphoric image structured by the expansion onto the source domain of professional activity, based on simple and compound models and their varieties. The complex methods of cognitive and pragmatic analysis of the mental political leader portrait are used. The article describes the pragmatic power of professional metaphoric models defined by the constant conceptual vectors of ruin and destruction and conceptual vector of protectionism. The ways of analysis are useful for development of communication theory, cognitive linguistics, socio-and psycholinguistics, linguapragmatics, cultural, media, and virtual linguistics. In the article, we establish that the political portrait of the German leader is formed by metaphorical expansions onto various areas of professional activity: law, pedagogics, theatre, circus, fine arts, building, transport (railway), medicine, service, law enforcement, music, hunting. On the material taken simple and composite (double-projected) metaphoric models have been identified. The complex metaphoric unity defines the genre peculiarities and the stylistics. The T. Yu. Tameryan et al.

This article concerns the research of such new aspect of political media communication as bilingualism in the young state of South Ossetia' election campaign. The study is devoted to the description of tactical and strategic tools of candidates for the presidency of the country in 2017. The strategic use of the Ossetian and Russian language systems, determined by the intentions of presidential candidates, the target audience, and the communicative situation, characterizes the language identities of Ossetian politicians as ambilingists switching easily between the two codes. The study shows that selfpresentation is one of the dominant strategies, as candidates seek to present themselves as the most worthy candidate for the presidency, using a specific set of language means and speech constructs. As the language analysis of the pre-election speeches testifies, the ethnic identity of the newly emerged South Ossetian political media communication is characterized by the development of mechanisms for dialogical interaction based on the T. Y. Tameryan, et al.

Аннотация Данная статья посвящена исследованию функциональных характеристик английских и российских медиатекстов о Зимних Олимпийских играх в Сочи 2014. Объектом исследования являются современные медиатексты о 22 Зимних Олимпийских играх на английском и русском языках. Описывается функциональная классификация медиатекстов, определяются содержательные особенности английских и российских медиатекстов о Зимних Олимпийских играх в Сочи 2014. Устанавливаются функциональные особенности английских и российских медиатекстов о Зимних Олимпийских играх 2014. Ключевые слова: Олимпийские игры, Зимние Олимпийские игры в Сочи 2014, медиатекст, английский и русский языки, функциональные характеристики, политический аспект, лингвистический аспект

The political and socio-economic situation in society produces certain conditions for a successful or unsuccessful political media communication flow. Mass media influence the socio-economic and political life of the country. Media discourse mirrors socioeconomic and cultural relations within and between states and defines the interests of the contemporary society. Institutional, stereotypical and mythological markers of the affecting model in today's political media communication are identified in this article within the framework of the discourse and the influence theories. In the article is established that the political language of the mass media reveals the peculiarities of linguistic consciousness, mentality, individual and mass speech behavior reflecting the institutional, stereotypical and mythological markers of the reactive model in the contemporary political media communication. Key words: institute, stereotype, myth, markers, affecting model, influence, political media communication, media discourse IntroductionThe XXI century displays an exacerbation of the global socio-political situation, its active coverage in international and local mass media and, consequentially, an increasing interest of native speakers belonging to different linguistic cultures in its relation. Contemporary linguistics broaches an issue of the interaction between the addresser and the addressee, discourse and power, and tries to answer the questions regarding the role of the language in the permanent struggle of people for power and influence, including the political language of the mass media. The socio-economic and political environment in a state establishes certain conditions for a successful or unsuccessful political media communication flow. The political media discourse reflects socio-economic and cultural relations within and between states and defines the political and economic interests of the contemporary society (Zheltukhina 2003;Zheltukhina, Vikulova, Slyshkin, Vasileva 2016, Khrulyova, Sakhieva, 2017 Kong, Kayumova, Zakirova, 2017;. The information-oriented society is characterized by the increasing managerial importance of the mass media, which are a part of public relations, as well as increasing public awareness, free access to information, an unimpeded operation of all the mass media, availability of mass technical means which make information approachable to the majority of citizens (Karpukhin, Makarevich 2001;Levina et al., 2017). The locomotive power of the socio-economic and political change is at present the information environment, information technologies, nevertheless there is a dislocation towards the sphere of influence on people, to the sphere of "people manipulation by people" (according to K. Marx), which earns the status of totalitarian process in political media communication. The political media communication performance resides in formation of the ideological majority (political, religious, consumer, artistic, etc.) and achievement of a social harmony.XLinguae, Volume 10, Issue 4...