LavrenchenkoYuliaSergeevnaCountry: RussiaCity: SaratovCompany: Saratov State University, Russia, 410012, Saratov, Astrakhanskaya street, 83 Position: Master’s Degree Student, Chair of the Russian Language and Speech CommunicationE-mail: yuliya-lavrenchenko@yandex.ru Author's articles Communication Failures in the Speech of Contemporary Educational Television Programmes Presenters: Reasons and Consequences METAPHORICAL REPRESENTATION OF POWER STRUCTURES IN MODERN RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN MEDIA.