A Word in the Mythologized Model of the World

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Vera N. Suzdaltseva

PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Chair of Stylistics of the Russian Language, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: journ.stilist@yandex.ra

Section: Media Language

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the contemporary political myths which according to the article are still playing the important role in creation of mass media world picture. There is a description of the verbal means that help the new myths to be formed. There have been determined the language mechanics of reconstruction and transformation of the already existing myths.

Keywords: social and political myths, mythologized model of world, verbal constructs of myth