Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia, khusyaynova.s@gmail.com
The purpose of the study is to describe speech techniques that are frequently used by present-day political leaders for targeted influence on the mass addressee. The research object includes the blogs of the political leaders; the subject is the specifics of the use of speech manipulation techniques on the electorate in the Network. The texts of the blogs on the social network Twitter of such high-ranking politicians as Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Sarah Wagenknecht, Christian Lindner, Cem Ozdemir, Sebastian Kurz, Sergey Mironov and Leonid Slutsky serve as the research material. It is established that in personal blogs, politicians both inform the electorate about their activities, implementing the strategy of self-presentation, and impose their opinion, the nature of behavior on the electorate, try to form a certain worldview with the help of verbal manipulation.
politics; Twitter; network; verbal manipulation; blogs of political leaders
Download textFor citing: Pishchalnikova, V.A., Khusyaynova, S.R. (2021). The specifics of the speech manipulation of politicians in the network on the material of the social service Twitter. Ethnopsycholinguistics. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 2(5), pp. 25-45. DOI: 10.31249/epl/2021.02.02