The Russian Verb Forms Smotrite and Slushayte as Markers of Power and Solidarity

Varieties Of Menasive Transposition In The Context Of Pre-Election Discourse

“…It is indicative that the connection of events declared by the politician -the antecedent (the conditional component of the threat) and the consequent (the investigative component of the threat) -is known to them as the author of the election campaign and to the voter as the addressee (Romanov & Novoselova 2020). It is important to note that the commission of menacing ("sanctioning") actions by the author of the threat is not their communicative intention, since, using the threat statement, the politician wants to attract the attention of the mass addressee (Bartashova & Polyakova, 2018;Boldyrev & Dubrovskaya, 2019;Skrebtsova, 2020;Volchetskaia & Primak, 2019).…”