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This article is devoted to the study of the stylistic resources in literary discourses of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and the British writer William Somerset Maugham. The study is conducted on the material of the novel «Impatience of the Heart» (Ungeduld des Herzens), as well as on the material of the novel «The Painted Veil». The purpose of the work is achieved by applying a comprehensive method of comparative, interpretative and stylistic analysis. It is established that one of the most common approaches to the study of texts is a discursive approach. The essential components in this approach are such subjects as the author, the reader, as well as the text itself. A distinctive feature of the texts of literary discourse is the active use of means of stylistic expression and of other stylistically marked linguistic units. The article examines the usage features of metaphors, epithets, and comparisons from the standpoint of the discursive study of literary texts, as well as their functional specifics. A quantitative comparative analysis of the studied material is carried out. It is established that the means of literary expression in belles-lettres discourse realize the following functions: description of the internal and external portrait of the characters of the work, description of the actions of the characters, description of the plot events of the literary work, as well as detailing landscapes and various objects of the realities of the literary work. The analysis of the material showed that the literary discourse of the two authors under study has certain similarities and differences. Both in the text of the novel «Ungeduld des Herzens» and in the text of the novel «The Painted Veil», the most frequent function of stylistic devices was the function of portraying characters. The study showed that the quantitative ratio of stylistic devices among the authors is different: the most frequent means of expression in a German-language novel was an epithet, in an English-language novel – a comparison. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the study of the functional specificity of stylistic devices with the help of discursive study in a comparative aspect of different linguocultures. The prospect of the research is further consideration of the means of literary expression in literary texts of various genres in a comparative aspect.

The research is focused on the study of a political direct e-mail as a multimedial genre of political media discourse as for the last decades of the XXI century e-mails have become one of the most popular ways of communication establishment within the groups of politicians and electorate in the USA. The aim of the study is to identify the genre, structural, semantic and stylistic linguocultural markers of American political direct e-mail to make it possible to attribute political e-mail messages to the genre of political media discourse, to distinguish between the formal and substantive components of this kind of media texts, and to identify the models of hybrid texts broadcast by e-mail. The empiric material consists of the text corpus of political direct e-mails in English addressed to the United States residents during the 2016-2020 election campaigns. Based on the discursive analysis, the correlation between the verbal and nonverbal components of political direct e-mails is established. The integration of both verbal and nonverbal components makes a certain structure of the printed media text. Within the framework of this study, we distinguish the signs of both individual and mass communication in political direct e-mails. Communication between the sender and the receiver in direct e-mails is based on the strategy of their identity. It is achieved by including personal pronouns, lexical units emphasizing the personal nature of correspondence, the use of direct address, rhetorical questions, facts from biography and personal photos of candidates during election campaigns, etc. in the texts of the political direct e-mails. In the future, it is planned to consider the strategies and tactics of the addressee of American political e-mail messages, to establish universal and specific linguistic and cultural markers of influence on the addressee.