ВЕРБАЛЬНІ ЗАСОБИ ВИРАЖЕННЯ СТРАТЕГІЇ «АГРЕСІЯ» В ПОЛІТИЧНИХ ДЕБАТАХ СУЧАСНИХ АМЕКИКАНСЬКИХ ПОЛІТИКІВ

Abstract

The article considers verbal means of aggression expression in political debates between the USA presidential election candidates –

1. Trump and H. Clinton. The research is based on the scripts of three presidential debates in 2016. The topicality of the research is stipulated by the necessity of further elaboration on the notion of verbal aggression as a linguistic phenomenon in the context of political discourse. In accordance with K. F. Sedov classification 5 types of speech aggression have been singled out and regarded in terms of verbal means used to express them. Quantitative analysis has demonstrated that verbal direct

initiative aggression type reinforced by verbal means prevail in both candidates’ speech. D. Trump also resorts to other types: verbal direct mediated, verbal direct emotional, verbal direct active and verbal direct passive aggression. Another essential difference between the two candidates’ aggression verbalization is that H. Clinton employs 3 types of verbal means to enhance aggression: pronoun, noun and verb, while her opponent makes use of pronoun, noun, verb and adjective. However, the examples expressing aggression by verbal means in presidential debates are quite immense (180 in D. Trump’s speech and 11 in H. Clinton’s speech), which suggests that verbal means are often used to convey aggression in political discourse.