Аннотация:Recent events in the British political arena have brought about two women politicians – Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon. Their presence is not confined only to mere debating and politicking, they define national strategies and geopolitical turns. Political discourse is subject to a number of factors: nationality, region, gender, age, social, political, and educational backgrounds.
Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon have rarely, if ever, become neither an object of a contrastive studies nor an object of a single studies.
Special emphasis is laid on the pragmalinguistic studies and idiosyncratic features of speeches.
The aims and objectives requires answers to several questions. These are the differences between male and female political discourse, the influence of geographical and ethnic background on the political image, the peculiarities of the idiosyncrasies with relation to the political views.
The aim of this paper is to investigate differences in the discourse of two political opponents and to apply the result of this investigation in further research.