DISCOURSE FEATURES OF PUBLIC FIGURES OF KAZAKHSTAN AND RUSSIA: LEXICAL LEVEL

The article describes the discourse of contemporary public figures of Kazakhstan and Russia. It presents a brief review of the scientific literature on the basic terms: official business style, discourse, and others. The purpose of the article is to observe the process of interpenetration of official business and journalistic styles and to identify the peculiarities of the official business language in the discourse of public figure at the present stage. In order to illustrate the basic provisions presented in this article, the materials of interviews with prominent Russian and Kazakh leaders – Chulpan Khamatova and Aruzhan Sain, Malyi Aleksey and Abenov Murat are involved. When analyzing the lexical level of public figures discourse as a basis L.G. Samotik's classification was taken. The observations allowed the author to identify the features of the functioning of the official business language in journalistic style. This made it possible to assert the interpenetration of official-business and journalistic styles.