Communicative Strategy of Discrediting in Political Discourse: Discrediteme Stylistic Aspect

Sirotin, D. V.

doi:10.18384/2310-712x-2019-5-113-122

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“…Thus, the paper considers, the concept of a political interview and the political text implementation of a discredit strategy, highlights the main tactics and techniques of the discredit strategy, provides the speech analyses of discrediting strategy implementation. Sirotin (2019), for example introduces the new term "discrediteme" to denote language units that realize the strategy. Being a particular case of a language sign, it includes metaphor, precedent names, emotionally loaded vocabulary, expressive language means (Sirotin, 2019).…”

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The Manipulative Strategy of Discrediting in US Political Interview

Evsyukova¹,

Glukhova²,

Agababyan³

2022

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The research aims at the speech discrediting strategy investigation in the light of the manipulative influence on the addressee. The American politicians’ interviews serve as a material for the case investigation. The paper considers, the concept of a political interview and the implementation of a discrediting strategy into a political text, highlights the main tactics and techniques of the discrediting strategy like the tactic of “unsupported derogation of authority”, comparative tactics, the “quoting the object of discredit” tactic, accusation tactics, bullying tactics, the tactics of insult, polarizing tactics, tactics of a precedent text “hooking”, the tactics of “aggressive opponent”. The study provides the speech analyses of discrediting strategy implementation. The paper applies the methods of contextual and content analyses of political interview texts regarding the means of discrediting strategy realization via political discourse analysis. The paper results in describing discrediting strategy tactics and the language means that realize each tactic correspondingly.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sirotin (2019), for example introduces the new term "discrediteme" to denote language units that realize the strategy. Being a particular case of a language sign, it includes metaphor, precedent names, emotionally loaded vocabulary, expressive language means (Sirotin, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%