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В статье на материале выступлений В. В. Путина и А. Меркель рассматривается вопрос о взаимосвязи гендера и специфики эвфемизации профессионального дискурса политических деятелей., The article focuses on gender specificity of professional discourse of politicians from the point of view of linguopersonology. The question of interrelation between gender and specificity of euphemization of professional discourse of political leaders is considered on the material of public speeches of V. V. Putin and A. Merkel. It has been found that in their speeches addressed to mass audience V. V. Putin and A. Merkel demonstrate a differentiated usage of euphemisms to complete professional communicative tasks., Политическая лингвистика, Issue № 6 (78), Pages 64-72

The article focuses on gender specificity of professional discourse of politicians from the point of view of linguopersonology. The question of interrelation between gender and specificity of euphemization of professional discourse of political leaders is considered on the material of public speeches of V. V. Putin and A. Merkel. It has been found that in their speeches addressed to mass audience V. V. Putin and A. Merkel demonstrate a differentiated usage of euphemisms to complete professional communicative tasks. В статье на материале выступлений В. В. Путина и А. Меркель рассматривается вопрос о взаимосвязи гендера и специфики эвфемизации профессионального дискурса политических деятелей.

This thesis describes the issue of the use of euphemisms in contemporary Russian language. It is aims to determine thematic areas in which euphemisms are used in contemporary Russian and compare it with conclusions of previous research. Another purpose of the research is determine function of euphemisms for particular thematic areas and compare frequency of incidence of euphemisms in lifestyle magazines for woman and newspaper with extensive target group. Material for the research was derived from the Russian press. Collected examples have not been used in previous studies. Based on theoretical findings thematic areas of using euphemisms and their functions were determined. Collected examples were explored from several perspectives - function, thematic areas they were used for, connection between context and perception of particular name as euphemism, description in the literature etc. One of the conclusions of this thesis is finding that there are thematic areas where euphemisms are used in contemporary Russian that have not been described in the literature. It has been determined that thematic areas of euphemisms incidence and frequency of their use were differed according to sort of periodicals they were found in. In case of frequent occurrence of particular euphemism can be regarded as its...