ФИЛОЛОГИЯ FUNCTIONING OF ENGLISH POLITICAL TERMS IN PROFESSIONAL AND NON-PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE ФУНКЦИОНИрОВаНИЕ аНГЛОЯЗЫЧНОЙ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ТЕрМИНОЛОГИИ В ПрОФЕССИОНаЛЬНОМ И НЕПрОФЕССИОНаЛЬНОМ дИСКУрСаХ А. <...> Ломоносова, 119991, Москва, Ленинские горы, ГСП-1, 1-й корпус гуманитарных факультетов Политическая терминология и ее функционирование как в профессиональном, так и в непрофессиональном дискурсе представляет значительный интерес для политиков, филологов и непрофессионалов. <...> Еще одна особенность состоит в капитализации терминов, преимущественно выраженных именем существительным. <...> Ключевые слова: термин, дискурс, институциональный дискурс, непрофессиональный дискурс, неинституционаьный дискурс, метафоризация P olitical terminology in general and its functioning in professional and non-professional discourse are of interest for politicians, philologists and laymen. <...> It is impossible to analyze the functioning of the political terms in professional and non-professional discourse without mentioning the notion itself. <...> Various opinions are held concerning the analysis of the notion «political discourse». 202 Thus, N.M. Perelgut and E.B. Sukhotskaya stick to the point of view that political discourse has two general variations: politics in the narrow sense of the word belongs to institutional discourse, whereas the discourse realization of politics in a wider sense belongs to non-institutional discourse: «узкое понимание политики предполагает институциональный дискурс, в то время как дискурсивная реализация политики в широком смысле реализуется в неинституциональном дискурсе» [1]. <...> Some scholars interpret the notion of political discourse in the narrow sense of the word. <...> According to T.A. van Dijk, political discourse is the discourse of politicians, realized in government documents, parliament debates, party programmes and speeches of politicians. <...> Therefore, political discourse is limited by professional sphere [2]. <...> E.I. Sheygal uses the term «field approach» (полевой подход) to analyze the political discourse. <...> According to E.I. Sheygal, ЛЕСНОЙ ВЕСТНИК 6/2015 ФИЛОЛОГИЯ discourse can be viewed as political if one of its components: the subject, the addressee or the contents of speech belongs to the sphere of politics. <...> Moreover, according to the author, the «field approach» allows to find other types of institutional discourse, which are connected with the political discourse [3]. <...> From the point of view of the subject of speech, she distinguishes between two types of political discourse <...>