%0 Journal Article %T Language specificity of the texts of political speeches of Angela Merkel %A Tsvetkova E. B. %J Vestnik Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University %D 2013 %I Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University %X This article discusses the concept of discourse, its special form political discourse, the verbal behavior of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, especially her ability to put into practice different speechmeans in political communications. It focuses on the analysis of the linguistic-stylistic and pragmalinguistic resources realized in the texts of her political speeches. In this article is discovered a new tactic called "tactic of pickup statements minded / opponents." %K political discourse %K public speech %K linguistic-stylistic potential %K pragmalinguistic resources %U http://journals.kantiana.ru/upload/iblock/355/D|D2D¦Ì£¿£¿DoD£¿D2D¡ã%20D£¿.%20D£¿._153-160.pdf