Characteristics of the Main Axiologemes in Internet Texts by the United Russia Political Party’s Leader D.A. Medvedev (Based on the Materials of the Author’s Telegram Channel)

The article presents a meaningful, semantic, linguistic, and rhetorical analysis of the axiological characteristic of the Internet texts by the «United Russia» political party’s leader D.A. Medvedev. The paper examines the main approaches to the axiologeme’s interpretation, names the basic values of modern Russian political consciousness, provides various typologies of political discourse axiologemes, emphasizes the need to identify the basic political values and anti-values. The study of the Internet texts by the famous Russian politician reveals the following axiologemes: «Fatherland – Russia», «law», «enemy», «war», «sanctions». The article interprets the conceptual content of axiologemes with a positive assessment («Fatherland – Russia», «law») and ideologemes with a negative axiological mode «enemy». The article provides a scrutiny of the speech embodiment of these axiologemes in the texts of posts of the author’s channel in the social network «Telegram». The paper describes rhetorical means used by D.A. Medvedev. The conclusion is made that the specifics of the implementation of D.A. Medvedev’s axiologemes in Internet texts are influenced by the following extralinguistic factors: the activity of a professional politician, the personal characteristics of the author, the high level of his linguistic competencies, the specifics of modern Internet communication, and the basic properties of the Russian political discourse.