Government and juridical field in the discourse on extremism

The study analyzes the impact of the government on the sound-image of the legal discourse on extremism. The paper reviews the important features of the regulatory text and their correlation with the significant characteristics of their producers. The research identifies the bureaucratic influence on the field-oriented legal concept of extremism. The theoretical constructs of P. Bourdieu’s analysis are used to comprehend and reveal government participation in the target discourse as well as to determine its authentic meaning. The paper examines the place and role of the juridical field as an agent of the state in the process of regulatory interpretation of extremism. The author reviews functions and effects of identified meaning: safety, universality, monopolization of public and symbolic components, protection of exercise of power in the bureaucratic field. The analytical study allows one to rethink the signified of such sign as extremism.