Political and legal mechanism of the government as a determinant of positioning choice for the speaking subject in legislative discourse: brief background

The article is devoted to the problem of representing the speaking subject in legislative discourse. The author says that the ways of positioning the speaking subject were undergoing the changes through the ages. The mechanism of the government is considered to be crucial in when choosing the ways of representing the speaking subject. The article also deals with the language units used to verbalize the speaking subject in legislative discourse, among which personal and possessive pronouns, proper names, institutional markers of the subject, subjectless grammatical constructions. The article concludes that over the last millennium the subject of legislative discourse have been using different strategies of self-positioning: from explicit nature of its stance to the full implicitness. The later way is the only one in modern legislative discourse.