POLITICAL LEADERS’ SPEECH EXPRESSING TOLERANCE/ INTOLERANCE IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE CONDITIONED BY GENDER (WITH THE COMBINATION OF ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND ARMENIAN)

Abstract

The concept of “gender” is one of the most discussed, criticized and speculated concepts in recent years, which is of interest from different perspectives - cultural, sociological, political, linguistic, psychological, etc. Gender obtains a unique manifestation in the political discourse. The analysis of speech of female and male politicians enables to identify the peculiarities of gender approaches in the political communication. There are obvious differences in the speech of men and women. They are conditioned by social and biological roles as well as stereotypes. In our work, we have analyzed the debates and speech of some key figures in American, French, and Armenian politics based on gender features. The contextual analysis used throughout the studies determines whether the speech has gender-specific peculiarities and what linguistic devices in the speech make it possible to speak, for example, whether the speech is mild or coarse, tolerant or intolerant.