Prospects for the use of interdisciplinary methods in discourse analysis of political text using the example of the P. A. Stolypin’s speech

Abstract

The study deals with the main and relevant directions and approaches to the discourse analysis of domestic and foreign scientists, structuring and building a scheme for analyzing media texts of a political orientation in order to identify the main ideological content, as well as the specifics of its expression in the text. The purpose of this study is to establish interdisciplinary approaches and methods of working with politically oriented text and the prospects of their use to assess the results of influence on the addressee. The authors present the main approaches to such analysis, give an overview of domestic and foreign methods used in discourse analysis, and consider the prospects of their use for assessing the effectiveness of impact, both on the part of the author of the discourse text and on the part of the addressee. Depending on the tasks being solved, both classical and interdisciplinary methods were used as research methods: when creating a historical review, a descriptive-comparative method was used in combination with a classification of approaches to discourse analysis; for developing the problem of impact, the method of critical discourse analysis was used in combination with content analysis of the text. In the course of the work, the sequence of performing certain well-known techniques of analyzing a politically directed text was clarified and the content of P. A. Stolypin according to the scheme proposed by the authors, taking into account the specifics of the linguistic content. In the course of solving this problem and in order to increase the degree of objectivity of the results obtained, machine word processing was additionally used (text information processing programs such as VAAL, Wordstat Yandex, etc.). The authors come to the need for a complex application of traditional methods and automated processing for the objectification of the results obtained.