Linguo-cognitive aspects of manipulation in political discourse

Abstract

Within the scope of the article the key properties and functions of political discourse are presented, the directions and tendencies in the field of this type of discourse with a specific metaphorical metalanguage are reflected. The paper demonstrates the results of a thematic analysis of the political discourse in the light of the prevailing stereotypes and stable blocks. Recognition and overcoming of linguistic technologies of manipulativity and conflicts are necessary in linguistic didactics as part of discourse analysis, practical course of a foreign language and in a number of other disciplines. The obtained results of linguistic and cognitive analysis show that the description of the properties and tasks of political discourse will avoid the manipulation of public opinion of the world community.

The role of the alternative relation in cognition and the disjunctive conjunctions as a means of its verbalization

“…The cognitive methodology has been transferred to the investigation of bilinguals [14], native and foreign language acquisition [15], translation and interpretation [16], which provides us with innovative methods of teaching languages [17]. Cognitive research of different types of discourse, namely, political [18] media [19] and advertising [20], has also become popular as it helps to find out the mental mechanisms of manipulative strategies and use them effectively or, on the contrary, resist them.…”