SPECIFICS OF THE INTEGRATION TACTICS REALIZATION IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF THE UK PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES

Abstract

This article concentrates on the peculiarities of the irony tactics realization in the UK parliamentary debates. Political discourse of the parliamentary debates is a communicative situation that involves interaction between the participants of the political communication. It is characterized by the constant interchange of information massages to discredit opponents in the debated. The paper defines such linguistic phenomena as irony and its specific type, as well as communicative strategy and tactics stipulating its realization as well as the correlation between these linguistic notions. The paper analyses specific language means such as intensifying evaluative, expressive and emotive language units expressing negative attitude towards the opponents in the political communication, idioms etc. Here the stylistic means used by the debates’ participants to discredit opponents during the meetings of the UK House of Commons in the post-Thatcher period are also represented. These stylistic means include antithesis, aposiopesis and parallelism that help to give additional positive connotation to the communicants’ interactions. It also specifies the speech acts and communicative moves involved in expressing critical opinions between the opponents of the political communication aimed at ruining their image in the eyes of the potential electorate.