Vietnamese Political Discourse from Linguistic Perspective

The article investigates existing approaches of Vietnamese, Russian and Western researchers to political discourse study. Besides works of Russian and Western researchers written within the framework of political linguistics, which is already developed in the relevant scholarly communities, the material of the analysis includes works of Vietnamese, Russian and Western scholars on Vietnamese political discourse. Methods of comparison, discourse analysis and content analysis allowed the author to obtain results that helped identify main trends and point out underdeveloped areas of Vietnamese political discourse research.