On the issue of modelling military-diplomatic discourse

The article is devoted to the study of a new linguistic phenomenon – military-diplomatic discourse. It notes the increasing role of public diplomacy as an instrument of state foreign policy in all spheres, including the military, and, as a consequence, the emergence of a new type of discourse that exists in the communicative space of the institution of public military diplomacy. The concept of hybrid discourse is considered as a fundamentally new type of discourse that arises as a result of a combination of discourse bases that are different from each other, the concept of military-diplomatic discourse as a result of hybridization of military and diplomatic discourses is introduced and determined for the first time, its analysis is carried out in accordance with the criteria of institutional discourse proposed by V. I. Karasik. The practical material used in the study is the texts of official speeches by representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the People’s Republic of China: Senior Colonel Wu Qian (吴谦) and Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang (张晓刚). The research methods include discourse analysis, contextual analysis, intentional analysis, stylistic analysis and semantic analysis. The scientific novelty of this study is due to the lack of a definition of the concept of “military-diplomatic discourse” in domestic linguistics and the lack of study of this linguistic phenomenon. As a result of the study, characteristic features of military-diplomatic discourse are identified, one part of which is preserved from the discourse bases, and the second is unusual for military and (or) diplomatic discourse. The institutional nature of military-diplomatic discourse is confirmed, due to the existence of the institution of public military diplomacy and compliance with all the criteria of institutional discourse. The conclusion is formulated about the need for further research into the concept of military-diplomatic discourse from the point of view of modern linguistic science