SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC PECULIARITIES OF THE CATEGORY AGON IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Journal Title: Закарпатські філологічні студії - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1

Abstract

This paper is devoted to an outline analysis of the category agon in the political discourse and how its tactics and strategies frame the scenes of linguistic actions. Linguistic means of expressing agon have been taken into consideration as well. It is obvious that the policy is the sphere of agon thinking and speaking ideals. Semantic and pragmatic peculiarities of the given category have been identified over the prism of the political discourse main functions, namely informative and influential ones. Consequently, the actual problem of manipulative potentiality of the English-speaking political discourse has been clarified, i.e. the tactics and strategies of the agon category.

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М. В. Матковська

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М. В. Матковська (2018). SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC PECULIARITIES OF THE CATEGORY AGON IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING POLITICAL DISCOURSE. Закарпатські філологічні студії, 5(1), 77-82. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-562380