Political actualization of temporality as a subjective component of the linguistic image of a female politician

Statement of the problem. This research work is focused on the analysis of the linguistic image of a female communicative type of politician, which has become one of the most attractive objects of study in recent decades. The term “linguistic image” is quite universal. The interest of modern linguistic science in the subject is explained not only by the leading anthropocentric paradigm, but also by the global process of human activities mediatization. The purpose of the article is to reconstruct the subjective component of the linguistic image of a female politician in the context of temporal actualization. Review of scientific literature on the problem. The wide range of works on the linguistic personality in general and the communicative component in particular reveals that the scope of researches related to the study of the time actualization component in the context of the modus categories of the female communicative type politician image is not sufficiently represented. The methodology (materials and methods). The research work is based on the texts of public speeches by Maria Zakharova, a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for the period of 2016-2018. The methods of linguistic description (descriptive-analytical method), relative-comparative method, as well as the method of semantic analysis are used in the work. Research results. The semantic analysis of the texts of M. Zakharova’s public speeches revealed that one of the modus markers of the speaker’s public language images is the actualization of the temporality of a political event. It is interesting that for M.Zakharova the actual time periods in the structure of the traditional three-part time model are present and future time models. Conclusion. The analysis of the modus meanings of M. Zakharova’s public texts showed that one of the temporal fields is the field of the present tense. It seems logical since the subject of the power sphere identifies with the situation of speaking at present and the powers he or she is actively executing at the moment. However, it is interesting that M. Zakharova chooses futural forms as the second temporal component in the temporal speech paradigm. In this form the speaker appears in the speech position of the “forecaster” as she acts as the authority responsible for the political present and future.