Psychological Traits of Political Party Leaders as Manifested in Internet Texts of Their Author Telegram Channels
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https://doi.org/10.17072/2073-6681-2026-1-53-63Keywords:
political discourse; author Telegram channel; political leader; political psychology; communication strategies; speech tactics; linguistic meansAbstract
The article deals with the psychological traits of the leaders of the main Russian political parties as one of the significant extralinguistic factors that determine the linguistic personalities of the politicians. These psychological traits influence the content and the speech organization of online texts functioning in political media discourse. Texts published in the author Telegram channels of G. A. Zyuganov and D. A. Medvedev in the period 2022–2024 serve as the research sources. In accordance with the concept of linguistic personality developed by Yu. N. Karaulov, the paper reveals the semantic, cognitive, and pragmatic-motivational aspects in the speech embodiment of Zyuganov’s and Medvedev’s linguistic personalities. The article identifies the features of the political leaders’ lexicons, highlights the axiologemes that form the idea of the main components of the cognitive level of the politicians’ linguistic personalities, describes the most characteristic communicative strategies and speech tactics as well as linguistic means reflecting the pragmatic-motivational level of these linguistic personalities. The consideration of the features of the politicians' linguistic personalities through the prism of V. D. Olshansky's political leadership concept has revealed that in the texts of Medvedev's Telegram channel the features of the leader-axiologist psychological type are manifested to a greater extent, while the texts of Zyuganov’s Telegram channel exhibit the properties of the leader-demonstrator psychological type, i.e., of a politician who demonstrates certain patterns of behavior. It is concluded that the application of the basic ideas of the political leadership concepts when scrutinizing the linguistic personalities of politicians makes it possible to identify the speech embodiment of the political leaders’ psychological traits in their texts.
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