Peculiarities of the political discourse of the social network Twitter

Tsaturyan M., Glushchenko A.

The following article is devoted to the research of the peculiarities of the political discourse based upon the real examples of the textual messages of the political actors in the social network Twitter. The analysed network is the reflection of the politicians’ actions and means in order to get the support of their constituents.

Keywords:political discourse, social network Twitter, the Internet, Twitter mediatext