Language of the Pandemic Representation in the Social Networks of Political Leaders (based on the Microblog-Twitter of Joe Biden and Boris Johnson)

The article reveals the results of analysis focusing on the English-language discourse of the political leaders of Great Britain and the United States implemented within Twitter microblog communication. The purpose of the article
is to identify the roles and meanings of linguistic tools and mechanisms used in the social networks of state leaders during the coronavirus crisis periods. In this regard, the study and description of the pandemic discourse specific goals explored the communicants’ desire to manipulate the public consciousness on Twitter through lexico-semantic variability, the connotative and contextual meaning of words. The authors come to the conclusion that the main motives forcing
the political leaders to create messages on Twitter are objectified by the desire to inform the country's population about various aspects of the life of the American community related to the coronavirus, namely: the economic situation in the country, the development and implementation of a vaccine, the anti-coronavirus campaign, informing about the current statistics of mortality and incidence of the virus. The corpus of the analyzed lexical units disclose that American statesmen microblogging is more permeated with pragmatic overtones in comparison with restrained British Twitter communications. It should be noted that, unlike British messages on social networks, American texts often pursue rather more complex political goals than informing the population and explaining the prevailing realities in a certain way and through specific techniques of current situation interpreting.