THE IDEOLOGIES OF “HUMAN RIGHTS” AND “AXIS OF EVIL” IN THE US FOREIGN POLICY DISCOURSE

In the course of political and media discourses, communicants use various linguistic units in their speeches and journalistic texts, among which the ideology is widespread. Ideologems reflect special events and phenomena in the political life of society and the state, form the worldview and political picture of the speaker's world, express his attitude to world political processes and domestic and foreign policy implemented by his state. At the same time, ideologems have an impact on public consciousness within a particular state and beyond, helping it to find a target audience among various groups of the population. Within the framework of this study, attention is paid to the ideologemes used in the modern foreign policy discourse of the United States.