REGULATORY COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGY IN THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the Ukrainian parliamentary discourse in terms of the communicative behavior of its participants, in particular, the implementation of communicative strategies of its participants. The concepts of political discourse and parliamentary discourse as a manifestation of the latter are defined; genre features of Ukrainian parliamentary discourse are revealed and to characterize parliamentary debates as the main speech genre. The main communicative strategies of politicians - participants in the Ukrainian parliamentary discourse are outlined and the linguistic means of implementing communicative strategies are analyzed. The study is focused on the communicative behavior of the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada meetings, who performs the communicative role of the moderator and chooses regulatory as the main strategy of communicative behavior in the parliamentary discourse. The purpose of the article is to determine the role of the regulatory strategy in the Ukrainian parliamentary discourse. The object of the study is the Ukrainian parliamentary discourse, the subject of the study is the speech behavior of the “moderator” of the parliamentary debates in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The transcripts of the meetings of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for 2022-2023 served as the research material. The speech behavior of the speaker is considered - the chairman of the meetings is the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada or his deputy, who acts as a moderator at the parliamentary debates: announces the agenda, gives the floor, sums up what was said, etc. Participants in parliamentary debates take turns speaking in the discussion: in most cases, the topic of discussion is set by one politician who presents the draft law, and the deputies criticize or support his speech. The regulatory strategy is subordinated to the observance of procedural norms and rules during parliamentary debates, the information strategy provides for the notification of new and operational information to the participants of the parliamentary discourse. The study deepens the theoretical foundations of political linguistics, discourse studies and linguistic pragmatics; theories of speech genres and communicative strategies.