The article dwells upon the possible tactics of creating a positive political image by means of understatement which is treated as an aspect of the interpretational function of language, namely, the pragmatic illocutionary and perlocutionary mechanisms of speech; and as a characteristic cognitive and language feature of the English language.

Translated title of the contributionUNDERSTATEMENT: CREATING A POSITIVE POLITICAL IMAGE
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)529-532
JournalКогнитивные исследования языка
Issue number34
StatePublished - 2018
EventVIII Международный конгресс по когнитивной лингвистике: Cognitio и Communicatio в современном глобальном мире - МГУ им. М.В. Ломоносова, Москва, Russian Federation
Duration: 10 Oct 2018 → 12 Oct 2018
Conference number: 8

    Research areas

  • manipulation, ILLOCUTION, PERLOCUTION, implications, PRAGMATIC CATE- GORISATION

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