Soviet-British relations in the discourse of socio-political press of the two countries

This article analyses the dialogical relations between the Soviet Union and Great Britain in 1985-1991, which are presented in the media discourse of the two countries as a dynamic verbal interaction between sense-building positions. Media discourse of the Soviet and British newspapers is investigated by identifying dialogical cycles of verbal interaction in the texts of the British newspapers «The Times», «The Guardian», «The Financial Times», and the Soviet «Izvestia», «Pravda» and «Sovietskaya Rossiya». The research examines how intertextual dialogue contributes to change the sense-building positions, in which the confrontational tone in relation to the other is replaced by neutral and even friendly.