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Political discourse of social networks (and the discourse of Twitter in particular) exhibits a number of structural and semantic features that differentiate it from other political discourses. Such factors as multimodality, interactivity, immediacy and limitation on the message length affect the communication on Twitter in terms of what communicative strategies are used and how they are implemented. This study explores the linguistic and paralinguistic means employed by US presidential candidates Donald Trump and ...

The perceptive image of a concept, according to I. A. Sternin, reflects both the way a concept is perceived by an individual with any of the five senses and the result of such perception. It appears that with regard to the concept “Body” the results of perception are objectified somewhat differently than the results of perception of other concepts. This is due to the fact that the body in this case is perceived (as an object of perception) and perceives (with the organs of perception) at the same time. Thus, w...