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Manipulation techniques as an archetypal pattern in fraudulent discourse

1) Mironova Aleksandra Аnatolyevna 2) Tugai Lyudmila Aleksandrovna

1) Dr. Sci. (Philology), Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language, national research university “South Ural State University”, Russia, Chelyabinsk, mironovaaa@susu.ru 2) Postgraduate Student, Department of the Russian Language and Rus-sian Language Teaching Methods, South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Russia, Chelyabinsk, l_tugai@mail.ru

Abstract

The paper focuses on the description of manipulation techniques in the speech of a fraudster and tools to influence the victim. High incidence of crimes committed using mobile phones makes the current research relevant. The authors argue that importance of studying the speech of a fraudster in day-to-day communication con-texts stems from the fact that the mainstream population is vulnerable to such un-wanted communication. The empirical material was includes real recordings of crim-inal cases. Verbal manipulation is analyzed in the context of Pragmatics. The au-thors consider verbal manipulation within the framework of an archetypal scheme which pushes the victim of a fraudster to follow a certain scenario. The analysis undertaken was aimed at studying the speech form of an archetypal action as an operational sequence. Tools of verbal manipulation in fraudulent discourse are iden-tified. The authors reveal the correlation between the need, the motive, and the emo-tion, presented in archetypes, in speech.

Keywords

fraudulent discourse; manipulation; archetype; fraudsterʼs speech; unwanted com-munication.

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For citing: Mitonova A. A., Tugai L. A. (2025) Manipulation techniques as an archetypal pattern in fraudulent discourse. Ethnopsycholinguistics. Moscow. INION RAN.Vol. 1 (20). pp. 42-59. DOI: 10.31249/epl/2025.01.03


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