Realization of Agonal Strategies in Public Disputes of Political Discourse

For citation: Vasilkova N.N. (2018) Realizatsiya agonal'nykh strategiy v publichnykh sporakh politicheskogo diskursa [Realization of Agonal Strategies in Public Disputes of Political Discourse]. Mediaskop 1. (in Russian). Available at: http://www.mediascope.ru/2413

DOI: 10.30547/mediascope.1.2018.3

© Natalya N. Vasilkova

PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Chair of Russian Language Stylistics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), n.vasilkova@mail.ru

The material is based on the report made at the conference "Discourse Studies: Opportunities for the Interpretation of Humanitarian Knowledge", which took place on September 28-29, 2016 in Yalta, V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University.

Abstract

Modern socio-political discourse is characterized by the use of agonal speech strategies and tactics. The political controversy is beyond the classical laws of argumentation: its goal is the assertion by any means of its position and the achievement of victory at any cost. Such agonal strategies as self-affirmation, constructing of the image of enemy, discrediting of opponent, realized with the use manipulative methods peculiar to eristica, have become an integral part of modern social and political discourse.

Keywords: political discourse, polemic, discussion, speech strategies, verbal aggression, socio-political talk show.

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