LINGUISTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSING VERBAL AGGRESSION IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
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https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2020.24.1.052Keywords:
political communication, verbal aggression, level of intensity, layers of vocabulary, linguistic and extra-linguistic contextsAbstract
The present paper is an attempt to highlight some of the linguistic means of expressing verbal aggression in political communication. The object of investigation is the study of verbal aggression from pragmatic perspectives mainly focusing on the instances of verbal aggression in English-speaking politicians’ speeches aimed at revealing linguistic units used to verbally attack the opponent. The main task is to find a rapport between those language means and effects they produce as well as to analyze the level of their intensity based on the contexts they are unfolding in.
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2020-06-25
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