TEACHING CONFLICTUAL COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES OF AMERICAN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Khramchenko
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Communicative Strategies

scholarly journals RETRACTED Defamation Strategy Implementation in the German Political Discourse

2015 ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
A. P. Kryachkova
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Strategy Implementation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Communicative Strategy ◽  
Perlocutionary Effect ◽  
Conversational Turns

RETRACTEDThe main definitions of political discourse are introduced in this article. The author also suggests her own definition of this term. The participants of political discourse use various communicative strategies in order to influence opponents. The article reviews various definitions of communicative strategy term. The author gives her own definition of communicative strategy term and describes the main political discourse strategies. The purpose of the article is to review defamation strategy implementation and to identify its role in political discourse of Germany based on Bundestag's political wrangling. The author describes the main tactics and conversational turns of defamation strategy and its development in German politicians' speech image. Defamation strategy is one of the leading strategies in any aggressive verbal behavior discourse. The research describes main communicant's intentions by using of defamation strategy. The addresser uses this kind of strategy to offend the opponent's positive image aiming to undermine opponent's credibility and to reduce his significance at the political stage. There are following tactics of defamation strategy: offence, accusation, jeer. The article reviews the functioning of named tactics in political discourse of Germany. The article describes special aspects of above listed tactics, distinguishes terms of offence and accusation, gives examples from Bundestag's political speeches. Every tactic has its conversational turns, that are realized by various linguistic means. The article analyses political comments as an evaluative lexis subject. It also suggests analysis of such turns as intensification, comment's metaphoricity, comparative constractions, that promote better perlocutionary effect.

scholarly journals Communicative Strategies in Political Speech of Donald Trump

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Maryna Darchuk
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Communicative Act ◽  
Communicative Strategy

The article deals with the linguistic and communicative peculiarities of the political discourse of Donald Trump, a presidential candidate in the USA. The focus is on the communicative strategies and tactics, used by the politician in his speech during the election campaign. The attention is paid to language means through which a particular communicative strategy or tactic is realized. Each communicative strategy is seen as a combination of language actions aimed at solving the general communicative task of a speaker. The achievement of such a task is possible only by using certain communication tactics. The strategy intends a combination of speech actions whereas a tactic describes peculiar speech actions that aim to influence listeners at a certain stage of communication. Tactics are dynamic, their change happens promptly throughout the communication process, which provides the flexibility of the chosen strategy. The usage of communicative strategies and tactics depends on the type of discourse. Political discourse is defined as a communicative act in which participants give specific meanings to facts and influence and persuade the listeners. Political speech is a public speech that is addressed to the audience in order to demonstrate the leadership of the speaker and influence the listeners. Communicative strategies used in political speech aim at the realization of the final aim of communication. They are focused on the future and are connected with the forecasting of the situation, that is why their sources should be searched in motives that determine human activity. Donald Trump's goal is to persuade the listeners to vote for him, that is why he delivers his speech using various communicative strategies that increase his chances of winning.

scholarly journals ON TREATING SELF-PRESENTATION IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-460
Author(s):  
O.N. Mishchuk ◽  
L.G. Vasiliev ◽  
E.V. Belova
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Self ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Global Strategies

The article is devoted to the analysis of linguistic and extralinguistic factors of the manifestation of self-presentation in political discourse. Particular attention is paid to the concept of ‘political discourse’. Various approaches to the interpretation and study of political discourse are described; its institutional characteristics are given. The purpose of the politician’s self-presentation is defined, its relevant parameters are indicated and described in detail: dramatization, idealization, control of the impression made, distortion and mystification. To study the implementation and linguistic manifestation of the self-presentation macrostrategy, general communicative strategies and tactics in the speeches of Anglo-Saxon politicians are analyzed. An analysis of the speeches of politicians of the highest echelons of power is carried out, resulting in revealing these global strategies: positioning the image of the addressee, positioning one’s own image, positioning the integrated image. Examples of the implementation of these strategies at the lexical and grammatical levels are given.

scholarly journals ‘And we are Stuck in One Place, Minister.’ A Study of Evasiveness in Replies to Face-Threatening Questions in Slovak Political Interviews on Scandals (A Combined Approach)

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 690-704
Author(s):  
Jana Lokajová
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Frames ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Conceptual Background ◽  
Political Argumentation ◽  
Discourse Studies

Abstract The phenomenon of political evasiveness in the genre of a political interview has been the focus of several discourse studies employing conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis and the social psychology approach. Most of the above-mentioned studies focus on a detailed qualitative analysis of political discourse identifying a wide range of communication strategies that permit politicians to ambiguate their agency and at the same time boost their positive face. Since these strategies may change over time and also be subject to a culture specific environment, the aim of this paper is to discover a) which evasive communicative strategies were employed by Slovak politicians in 2012–2016, b) which lexical substitutions were most frequently used by them to avoid negative connotations of face-threatening questions, and finally, c) which cognitive frames formed a frequent conceptual background of their evasive political argumentation. The paper will draw on a combination of quantitative and qualitative approach to the analysis of non-replies devised by Bull and Mayer (1993) and critical discourse analysis in the sample of five Slovak radio interviews aired on the Rádio Express. The selection of interviews was not random- in each interview the politician was asked highly conflictual questions about bribery, embezzlement or disputes in the coalition. Based on qualitative research of Russian-Slovak political discourse (2009) by Dulebová it is hypothesized that a) the evasive strategy of ‘attack’ on the opposition and ‘attack on the interviewer’ would occur in our sample with the highest prominence in the speech of the former Prime Minister Fico, and b) the politicians accused of direct involvement in scandals would be the most evasive ones.

De regimine principum

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-240
Author(s):  
Rita Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Scholastic Philosophy ◽  
Aristotelian Rhetoric

Chapter 5 considers the most important factor in the reception of Aristotle’s Rhetoric, its translation from the speculative domain of scholastic philosophy to political philosophy and statecraft in Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum. Widely copied and translated, this treatise proved the most influential interpretation of the Rhetoric. If in his early commentary Giles had showed little understanding of Aristotle’s distinctive phenomenology of emotions, his mirror of princes, written only a few years later, registers and mobilizes that active political dimension of emotion that is so important to Aristotelian rhetoric. Aristotle’s treatise on the emotions in book 2 of the Rhetoric figures extensively in De regimine principum, as Giles frames his theory of kingship in terms of the communicative strategies essential to rhetoric, “through arguments that are obvious and felt by the senses.” In this treatise, we also see how Giles has internalized the power of enthymematic argument, understanding political discourse as a kind of affective persuasion calling upon beliefs as well as emotions.

scholarly journals Axiological aspect of confrontational communicative strategies in american political discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Ya. Y. Khlopotunov ◽  
D. S. Khramchenko
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Proper Nouns ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Verbal Labels ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Subject

The aim of this paper is to analyze how the axiological aspect of confrontational communicative strategies is realized in American political discourse. The problem of intensified conventional and destructive elements in American political speech requires thorough linguistic investigation as political discourse is becoming more subjective and negative. The evaluation category allows discourse participants to construct some hierarchy of objects based on the “good vs. bad” predicates. The author analyzes different types of evaluations and their realizations in confrontational strategies, e.g. instrumental, technical, conductive, utilitarian, medical, hedonic evaluations. The paper puts special focus on construction of evaluation act, which includes the subject of speech, the object of speech and the predicate. The subject of speech is expressed through personal pronouns, appeals to authority or majority. The object of speech can be specified directly (using, for example, proper nouns, familiar constructions and verbal labels) or indirectly (using deixis). The predicate is expressed through nouns, adjectives, modal and emotional verbs and infinitives. The negative evaluation comprises such typical means as modified personal pronouns, contextual metaphors, pun, indexical phrases etc., which are used for confrontational speech tactics of mockery, discrediting, exposing, prosecution, negative analysis and vulnerability.

scholarly journals THE «POWER» CONCEPT IN PUBLIC SPEECHES OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS: SEMANTICS, SYNTAGMATICS AND PRAGMATICS

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-160
Author(s):  
ALEVTINA N. MOROZOVA ◽  
◽  
OLGA A. TIURINA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
American Values ◽  
Control Strength ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Power Concept

The idea of power is crucial in political communication in general, and in American political communication, in particular. The article presents the analysis of the «power» concept as the key concept embodied in political discourse. Public speeches of two American presidents - Barack Obama and Donald Trump - over the time period from 2004 to 2019 were chosen as the material for this study. The analysis of the speeches from the viewpoints of lexical-semantic variants of the word power, its typical colligational (morpho-syntactic) and collocational (lexico-phraseological) peculiarities against the background of communicative strategies and tactics employed enabled to identify and describe the characteristic patterns of verbalizing the «power» concept. As a result, it was discovered that Obama’s discourse was characterized by integrative, informational and agonal strategies while Trump employed agonal and integrative strategies in his speeches. In the three meanings of the lexeme - 'authority, possession of control', 'strength, force', 'country, influential people', - invariant and variable morphological, syntactic, lexical, phraseological patterns were found. Among the invariant patterns, there was the use of the vocabulary representing American values and a number of tropes.

scholarly journals Political Discourse: Communicative Strategies of Regulation

Discourse-P ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 32-33 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Natalia Vasilkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Communicative Strategies
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