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Article name Correlation of the levels of aggression and transparency in political rhetoric (on the material of the “case of the Skripals”)
Authors Gurevich L.. ,
Bibliographic description
Category Politology
DOI 32.019.51 / 81.139
DOI 10.21209/2227-­9245-­2018-­24-­5-52-61
Article type Scientific
Annotation The article is devoted to the political rhetoric between the government officials of the United Kingdom and Russia on the Skripals’ case. It is noted that the escalation of the political conflict is accompanied by an increase in the number of offensive statements by British Foreign Secretary B. Johnson and Prime Minister T. Mei in relation to Russia and Vladimir Putin. The main objective of the study is to find the correlation between the levels of aggression and the transparency of motivation in political discourse. It is determined that the escalation of aggression leads to a violation of the rules generally accepted in political rhetoric. Moreover, in this process a number of defining characteristics are revealed which indicate the regularity of the development of this phenomenon, namely: strengthening of the estimated modality of utterances, increasing number of invective words, mythological nature of utterances, and so on. To the classification of the instrumental function of the language, the author proposes adding one more level of political rhetoric – “provocative”, which should take the top position in this classification. It is characterized by a high degree of mythology of utterances, lack of logical sequence and completeness of statements, redundancy of the emphatic constructions in speech, dazzling with political labels and invectives. An inversely proportional dependence of the transparency of political rhetoric and aggression levels in speech is revealed
Key words political rhetoric; Skripals’ case; political conflict; levels of aggression; motivation transparency; instrumental function of language classification; political labels; invectives; mythological character of narration; estimative modality in utterance
Article information Gurevich L. Correlation of the levels of aggression and transparency in political rhetoric (on the material of the “case of the Skripals”) // Transbaikal State University Journal, 2018, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 52-61
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