RHETORIC IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE: LINGUISTIC MANIPULATION OF PUBLIC OPINION

  Ivanna Bahniuk (Lviv, Ukraine) |    Скачать статью

What exactly is 'political discourse'? The easiest, and not altogether misguided, answer is that political discourse is identified by its actors or authors, viz., politicians. Politicians in this sense are the group of people who are being paid for their (political) activities, and who are being elected or appointed (or self-designated) as the central players in the polity. This way of defining political discourse is hardly different from the identification of medical, legal or educational discourse with the respective participants in the domains of medicine, law or education.