BASIC COMMUNICATION TACTICS IN THE PUBLIC SPEECH OF A FEMALE POLITICAN (BY THE EXAMPLE OF HILLARY CLINTON’S CAMPAIGN SPEECH)
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2017-6-39-43
The article aims to clarify the concept of “political discourse”, its definition, structure and its place among other discourse types. Political discourse in this article is considered as a complex of all speech acts used in the political debates, and it can also be interpreted as a complex of rules of social relations which have their own traditions, and have been tested by many years of experience. The article describes politician’s verbal impact on the public from a gender perspective, and characterizes typical traits of a female politician. Verbal impact can include different methods and tactics used by the orators to influence and persuade the audience. However, these influence tactics differ from individual to individual in their effectiveness, as well as across gender. The article presents different types of the communication tactics (contact-establishing tactics, self-presentation tactics, communication tactics, accusation tactics and «play in figures» tactics) by the example of Hilary Clinton’s campaign speech – the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the Unites States of America in the 2016 election. With the help of these tactics Hilary Clinton has a possibility not only to establish contact with the audience, but also she can influence people’s emotions, feelings, and can induce public to act.
Keywords: political communication, election speech, political discourse, communicative tactics, politician’s speech portrait
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Issue: 6, 2017
Series of issue: Issue 6
Rubric: COGNITIVE-DISCURSIVE AND COMPUTER LINGUISTICS
Pages: 39 — 43
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