Abstract

The article deals with discursive criticising strategies in the electoral discourse of Germany and Ukraine from a contrastive perspective. The leading features of criticism in the discourse are appraisal, agonalism, aggressiveness and persuasiveness. The subject of the study is the contemporary discourse of Germany and Ukraine. The article identifies the linguistic discursive contrasts of criticism in the contemporary discourse of Germany and Ukraine. The paper determines the types, forms and functions of criticism in discourse, describes the in-depth structure of critical utterances and their semantic conditions, developes a hypothesis, linguistic material and stages of two-way comparative analysis through tertium comparationis, the basis of which is the idealized notion of political The strategy of destructive criticism is implemented by tactics of criticism-reproach, criticism-condemnation and criticism-defeat, which is perceived as by the addressee as adverse. In turn, the strategy of constructive criticism is implemented by the tactics of criticism-discussion, criticism-examination and criticism-analysis, which create a favorable impression on the addressee of the criticism. Political criticism is an important component of public communication, which in Germany and Ukraine has its linguistic and cultural traditions and depends on the mental and cultural characteristics of politicians, the motivational tendencies of critical rhetoric, belonging to one of the parties in oppositional discourses own / alien, opposition / power , new / old, subordinate / leader, as well as the speaker's personal rhetorical competence, the degree of eloquence of his / her speech, etc.

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