UN English-language discourse: pecularities and applications in describing the world order

This research paper is set in the context of growing interest towards globalization and its effects on contemporary English-language discourse. The focus United Nations’ discourse can be explained by pivotal role this organization identifying, shaping spreading global trends. underlying assumption that conceptual, cognitive semantic analyses UN enable deeper understanding western worldview, which expands into other types with a broad audience (media, educational, etc). application conceptual metaphor theory has allowed to discover conceptual-definitional level as well image value levels employed concepts order find out linguistic tools construct world model view today’s reality. study shown language behaviour described dichotomy “uniting – separating”. On one hand, reality represented “family” field life (based THE WORLD IS A FAMILY) inherent family values obligations. subject explicit categorization through opposition FRIEND vs. FOE metaphorical “The fairy tale just war”. Mechanisms hierarchization participants’ relations were also revealed help metaphors RELATIONS AMONG STATES ARE PARENT-CHILD LEADER STATE NURTURANT PARENT. results may useful for further cognitive-pragmatic way, possibility using identified detect speech tactics strategies, comparative analysis constructed models official languages: Russian, French, Spanish, Chinese Arabic.