PRAGMATICS AND CONTEXTUAL FEATURES OF THE RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS FUNCTIONING IN INAUGURATION SPEECHES OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS

The article is devoted to the study of semantic and contextual features inaugural speeches organization in cases when religious concepts function them. relevance determined by importance analyzing pragmatic characteristics functioning American presidents’ speeches. Research methods are cognitive-discursive analysis, method quantitative processing material. Empirical material contains 57 texts, which noted 296 contexts. US presidents regularly use their speeches, some functioning, texts have certain structural that emphasized this work. analyzes main guidelines for using these concepts: actualization moral ethical values society, underlining continuity history state, implication meaning divine election president idea a special relationship Creator people, seeking help leading state. role allows us consider more detail linguistic extralinguistic political discourse texts.