MEANS OF POLITICAL MODALIZATION IN MODERN ENGLISH-SPEAKING MASS MEDIA DISCOURSE

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of political modalization, which is an integral feature of the modern media discourse and can be defined as an ideological interpretation of facts and events reported in the media. The relevance of this paper is due to the interest of scientists to the political function of language, the study of which inevitably raises the problem of the relationship between language and politics. The aim of the work is to describe the linguistic means involved in the implementation of political modalization in the English media discourse. This goal is achieved by applying the methods of seme, contextual and linguistic stylistic analysis, as well as the method of critical discourse analysis. The research is based on British and American media 2014–2018. The paper claims that the basis of political modalization is the ideological assessment influenced by the factor of acceptance or rejection of a particular phenomenon. The author analyzes such means of political modalization as manipulation of nominations, evaluative vocabulary, ideologemes, antonymic oppositions, contrast, conceptual metaphors, irony, morphological means, means of expressive syntax. This analysis expands the understanding of both the mechanisms of political modalization and the linguistic creativity of English-speaking journalists who use various modal units to represent the political reality that meets the interests of certain political forces and contributes to the spread of their ideology. These results are relevant for the development of discursive and political linguistics, as well as pragmalinguistics and linguistic stylistics as they identify effective ways of English-speaking journalists' influence on a mass audience. The article can be useful for linguists, journalists and politicians in both theoretical and applied aspects