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DYNAMICS OF INTIMIDATION STRATEGY IN BRITISH POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Russian Studies. Germanic Studies. Romance Studies , UDC: 811.11-112 DOI: 10.25688/2076-913X.2022.48.4.05

Authors

  • Chupryna Olga Gennadyevna Doctor of Philology, Professor
  • Aleshina Ekaterina Yu. PhD (History), docent

Annotation

The issue of inducing fear or awe as a speech strategy is in focus of the current discourse studies relating to the world political reality. It is predetermined by the necessity of examining the communicative elucidation of war strategy in political discourse. The article aims to reveal linguistic and textual features of intimidation strategy manifestation in the public discourse of British politicians. Dictemic analysis of the text is employed as a key research method. Public speeches of W. Churchill, M. Thatcher, T. Blair and B. Johnson form the empirical material of the research. It is argued that various types of dictemic information serve as a basis of intimidation strategy manifestation in speech. The results of the research comprise invariant propositions underlying the intimidation strategy in public speeches of British prime-ministers, and variable repertoire of lexical and semantic means of unfolding these propositions in their texts. The conclusion was made that combination of factual and emotive information is one of the means of inducing fear and awe, while the agonism is an individual variable speech characteristic.

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Chupryna, O. G. & Aleshina, E. Y. (2022). DYNAMICS OF INTIMIDATION STRATEGY IN BRITISH POLITICAL DISCOURSE Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 2022, №4 (48), 59. https://doi.org/10.25688/2076-913X.2022.48.4.05
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