Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of the features of constructing the image of “victim” and “aggressor” in the political speeches of the former President of the Republic of Costa Rica. The purpose of this study is to analyze the created “typology of victims and aggressors”, to determine the means of verbalization of these images, as well as to determine the manipulative strategies and tactics which are implemented by the speaker. The material was the speeches delivered by Laura Chinchilla during her presidency from 2010 to 2014; 12 speeches were analyzed in total. The relevance of the study is due to the low level of knowledge of such a phenomenon as the “victim-aggressor” dichotomy and its specific manifestations in terms of the speaker’s intentions within the framework of the female political discourse of Latin America. During the analysis it was possible to establish the specifics of the “victimization” process for Chinchilla’s speeches, as well as to identify three images of victims created by a politician (the country, women and the president herself), the contexts and methods that construct these images in political discourse, and a typology of “images of aggressors”. In particular, it was established that the goal of forming these images was the implementation of some tactics: cooperation, demarcation, presentation, self-presentation, rejection of criticism, accusation and denunciation.
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