COMMUNICATIVE-PRAGMATIC STUDY OF POLITICAL HUMOR MANIPULATION
Journal Title: Збірник наукових праць «Педагогічні науки» - Year 2018, Vol 84, Issue 1
Abstract
The article is devoted to the communicative and pragmatic study of manipulative impact of humor in English political discourse. It describes the stylistic resource of language means of political manipulation, proves the relevance of using humor as a convenient and dominant method of communication. The study aims at: 1) finding out the pragmatic structure of humor as verbal manipulation, i.e., the kind of processing stages when dealing with it in political speeches; 2) identifying the most common pragmatic strategies used to issue humor as verbal manipulation in political speeches; 3) explicating the insincerity of humor when there are insufficient contextual clues. To achieve the aims of this work, the following procedures are adopted: 1) reviewing the literature about humor as verbal manipulation, its definitions, types, related theories, etc., to establish a general view of the phenomenon in question; 2) collecting data from electoral political British prime-ministerial and American presidential candidates; 3) analyzing the humor situations in political speeches under study by means of a model developed for this purpose. It is hopeful that this study will be of a good value in the fields of pragmatics, applied linguistics, and politics.
Authors and Affiliations
В. І. Школяренко, Ю. А Бондаренко
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