POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY OF DAVID CAMERON
Abstract
This article analyses transcripts and video footage of pre-election speeches (2014-2015) delivered by the Prime Minister of the united Kingdom David Cameron with the purpose of creating a linguistic portrait of the political leader. We define communicative tactics common for all the analysed speeches, which allow the speaker to achieve his pragmatic purposes, discuss the linguistic means of implementation of the defined tactics and paralinguistic means typical of the orator. We discover that the key tactics traceable through all the analysed pre-election speeches given by David Cameron are self-presentation, or positioning stategy, conflict strategy and cooperation strategy, with the emphasis on promotion of the new British values. It was found that the lexical aspect of D. Cameron’s political discourse is deprived of professional jargon, but close to everyday common speech, rich in emotive and assessment lexis. The study defines D. Cameron as an accomplished linguistic personality and brilliant speaker capable of exercising both pragmatic and emotional influence on a wide range of his audience.
About the Author
A. N. Pogrebnova
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
76, Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454
Pogrebnova Alexandra Nicolaevna – PhD in psycholinguistics, associate professor of English Department №4 MGIMO (U).
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Pogrebnova A.N. POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY OF DAVID CAMERON. Linguistics & Polyglot Studies. 2016;(5):51-69. (In Russ.)
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