Abstract: This article is dedicated to examination of phonological peculiarities of segmental level of the French language in Pondicherry, one of the regions of the Republic of India. This region is a former trading post of the Fifth Republic, and currently is part of the preserved so-called “French India”. The goal of this research consists in determination of phonetic peculiarities of the French language of the population of Pondicherry in comparison with the central norm of pronunciation in France. The authors conducted an auditory analysis of the text recorded by the broadcasters, as well as thoroughly analyzed its results. In the course of research, the authors examined the level of realization of phonological oppositions within the system of vowels; as well as peculiarities of pronunciation of consonants, preservation or non-preservation of the phenomenon of “binding”, along with the instances pronunciation or fall out of [ə] caduc. The main conclusion consists in confirmation of the assumption on the causes of certain difficulties in realization of the French norm of pronunciation among the residents of Pondicherry. The differences in phonological systems of the French and Tamil languages (native to the population of Pondicherry) are the cause of the emergence distortions or replacements of certain French phonetic sounds. The conducted determined the pronunciation characteristics of French language of the population of Pondicherry, which were affected by their native Tamil language.

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the description of results acquired in the course of conducting lexical-semantic analysis of the texts of televised election debates. Speech of the candidates of the head of the Fifth Republic in the course of election campaigns of 2012 and 2017 served as the material for this study. The goal lies in examination of the ways of influencing the potential voters using the linguistic means. The authors carried out e lexical-semantic-stylistic analysis of research material, as well as explored substantive structure of the selected texts. The article also analyzes content of the speech of televised election debates, presented by the combination of the conveyed explicit and implicit information. The work also includes a summary table that demonstrates nuclear lexemes of the juxtaposed semantic complexes of texts. The results obtained in the course of lexical-semantic-stylistic analysis confirm the authors’ assumption that the texts of televised election debates contain semantic dichotomies that are one of the ways of influencing the electorate.

Abstract: This article is devoted to the concepts of psycholinguistics, neurolinguistic programming, speech influence on the audience and implementatino of psycholinguistic and NLP methods and strategies in political debates. The authors of the article describe a range of extralinguistic means that can at the intersection of psycholinguistics and neurolinguistic programming and aimed at affecting the audience and making a certain communicative effect. The authors have carried out a psycholinguistic analysis of texts as well as created a psychological portrait of a speaker using the results of language unit analysis. In particular, the authors present the results of the psycholinguistic and NLP analysis of Marine Le Pen's remark said by her durign the French president election campaign in 2017. The results of the authors' analysis of that part of political TV debates allow to conclude that a great variety of not only linguistic but also extralinguistic means are used to make a certain communicative effect on the electorate during election campaign and these are the means that are used in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistic programming.