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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">mgimorusculture</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">The Russian Journal of Cultural Studies and Communication</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>The Russian Journal of Cultural Studies and Communication</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2949-6330</issn><publisher><publisher-name>МГИМО МИД России</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24833/RJCSC-2022-1-2-62-69</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">mgimorusculture-8</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>NATIONAL DISCOURSES</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>The Specifics of Modern Political Communication in Germany:  the Fight For Lexicon</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kashenkova</surname><given-names>I. S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Irina S. Kashenkova – Cand. Sci. (Pedagogy), Associate Professor</p><p>76 prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">ikashenkova@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kashenkov</surname><given-names>R. Y.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Roman Y. Kashenkov – Fourth-year BA student, School of International Journalism</p><p>76 prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">kashenkov.roma@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>MGIMO University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>16</day><month>11</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>1</volume><issue>1-2</issue><fpage>62</fpage><lpage>69</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Kashenkova I.S., Kashenkov R.Y., 2022</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Kashenkova I.S., Kashenkov R.Y.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kashenkova I.S., Kashenkov R.Y.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://cultures.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/8">https://cultures.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/8</self-uri><abstract><p>This article highlights some aspects of modern political communication in Germany. Various linguistic and extralinguistic factors determine the relevance of the problem. The main purpose of the article is to look at the sphere of “language and politics” from the point of view of their interrelation, to demonstrate the power that the language of politics has over public opinion and the political situation in the country. To this end, the article describes the language of politics in terms of political linguistics, offers a classification of political vocabulary, and characterizes word–symbols, such as Liberty, Safety, Democracy and Terrorism as a reasonable way of expression and differentiation between words and political content. It is noted that political communication as an ideological discourse is aimed at the fight for power, while the main task of the language of politics is the fight for vocabulary, which ultimately is the fight for voters. The desire to influence the political preferences of voters in conditions of a worsening migration crisis in Germany dictates the need to consciously choose one’s words: positive words-banners, such as Peace, Fairness and Safety, to increase the importance of their position in public opinion, or to mobilize their own supporters; or negative words-labels, such as Terrorist, Islamist and Extremism, to reduce the importance of the position of the enemy or verbally attack one’s political opponent. Through the example of actual concepts of migration discourse, namely welcome culture, leading culture, farewell culture, the article examines the strategies and tactics through which political communication is a struggle for vocabulary, thus showing the correlation of language and policy.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>language of politics</kwd><kwd>political vocabulary</kwd><kwd>words-symbols</kwd><kwd>words-banners</kwd><kwd>words-stigma</kwd><kwd>term</kwd><kwd>fight for vocabulary</kwd><kwd>strategies</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Dieckmann W. 2005. Deutsch: politisch – politische Sprache im Gefüge des Deutschen. Sprache und Politik. Duden Band 6. Mannheim: Dudenverlag. P. 11–30. (In Deutsch).</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Dieckmann W. 2005. Deutsch: politisch – politische Sprache im Gefüge des Deutschen. 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