STATEMENTS EXPRESSING AGGRESSION IN THE ENGLISH POLITICAL PUBLIC SPEECH OF A CONFLICT SITUATION (AS EXEMPLIFIED BY PRESIDENT J.F. KENNEDY’S SPEECHES)
Abstract
Communication and goal characteristics of a public political speech in a conflict situation are studied in the article. Analysing President J.F. Kennedy's speeches, the author describes speech act specificity as connected with its information and communication structure. Special attention is given to the statements expressing aggression that characterise a text of a conflict situation. The author highlights several types of statements expressing aggression and illustrates them with examples from J.F. Kennedy's speeches making conclusion about the prevailing types of statements in the politician's speeches.
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