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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2015  
         
  Article:   ELEMENTS OF PRAGMATICS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE .

Authors:  OCTAVIA RALUCA ZGLOBIU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   Elements of Pragmatics in Political Discourse. Politics is about “language in context.” Put simply, there could be no political discourse outside a political context and without the support of language. Seen from this perspective, pragmatics plays a decisive role in the process of political communication. Still, the most interesting part is to detect these elements of pragmatics in political discourse and to analyse if they are used properly, that is, in accordance with pragmatic laws. Of course, the speaker may be or may not be aware of all these pragmatic rules, most of them “squeezed” into discourse at the well-nigh intuitive level of common-sense, but if we detect that they are broken too often, we might talk about cases of linguistic manipulation.

Keywords: pragmatics, political discourse, language in context, speech-acts, co-operative principles, legitimating function.
 
         
     
         
         
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