Military-political discourse as a distinctive type of discourse

The article focuses on the problem of discourse typology with a special emphasis on the military-political discourse type. Characteristics of the military-political discourse and its distinctive features are analyzed along the lines of the comparative-contrastive approach. The criteria for such an analysis are components listed by V.I. Karasik in his fundamental article on discourse types. The results obtained prove that military-political discourse occupies a distinctive place in discourse typology being a self-sufficient type of discourse relative to military and political discourse types.