In the article there is defined concept of comic as a rhetorical and semantic technique in public discourse, which exerts psychological behavioral influences. There are highlighted main features comic, particular: available for human perception; it causes laughter among representatives certain social group, demonstrates difference between different groups (motives comedy not global, they will b...

Some argue that there is an organic connection between being religious and being politically conservative. We evaluate an alternative thesis that the relation between religiosity and political conservatism largely results from engagement with political discourse that indicates that these characteristics go together. In a combined sample of national survey respondents from 1996 to 2008, religios...

This research examines the thesis that religiosity has conflicting influences on Americans' attitudes about the use of torture on terrorism suspects: an organic influence favoring opposition to torture and a discursively driven influence favoring support of torture. In each of two national samples, religiosity had both a direct effect toward opposition to torture and an indirect effect-via cons...

The article is dedicated to the study of stratagem Chinese media discourse as a special way structuring discursive position that contributes its dominance in communication. Because analysis corpus texts political discourse, it established manifests itself coordinates macro-communication, which has an agonal character, and focused on achieving dominant by validating with help public social addre...

a bstr act Prominent positions in the contemporary theoretical field of the humanities tend to conceptualize late modern communities in general as aes­ thetic communities of taste. In regard to political communities, this means reducing the political to an implication of the aesthetic discourse. This article argues for addressing the aesthetic and the political as distinct discourses that are, ...