EXPRESSIVE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES IN THE TEXTS OF KEY SPEECHES OF THE PRESIDENT OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION V.V. PUTIN
This article is devoted to the issues of speech expressivity which are relevant for modern political discourse. The research is based on the printed texts of key speeches of V.V. Putin, among which Munich, Crimean and Sochi speeches take a special place, as well as the speech delivered by the President of the Russian Federation at the 70th UN General Assembly in New York. The classification of expressive syntactic constructions is presented, typological features are analyzed and their functional purpose is noted. The most interesting ones are introductory structures with the expression ‘so called’ which are taken into quotation marks, which indicates their usage in figurative or ironical meaning. It is marked that expressive syntactic structures in the President’s speech are combined with lexical expressive means and can be completely described only in application to textual syntagmatics and discourse specificity. It is established that expressive syntactic means provide semantic coherence and structural cohesion of the elements of a political text, and also perform a pragmatic function, demonstrating the expressiveness of political speech due to the author's subjective modality. The President’s high skills in usage of expressive syntactic structures demonstrate his creative approach to language factors and high level of his speech abilities.