THE COMMUNICATIVE MEANS OF MANIPULATING A SUSPECT USED BY A WOMAN-DETECTIVE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the communicative strategy of manipulation and communicative tactics, that manifest it. The research of communicative strategies and tactics instills the respect of wealthy domestic and foreign linguists. The topicality of the study of strategies and tactics is motivated by the various points of view on this issue which results in the ambiguity of the explanation. The article is an attempt to trace the mechanism of manipulation, applied by a woman-detective during the investigation. The analysis is based on the data from English detective novels. The object of the study is the characters’ speech: the woman detective’s interrogation of witnesses and suspects. The scope of the study is the communicative tactics applied by the woman detective to manipulate witnesses and suspects. The purpose is cognitive and pragmatic analysis of the communicative tactics applied by the female detective to manipulate the witnesses and suspects. The investigation is based on the general and special linguistic methods: synthesis and analysis, method of observation, descriptive method, pragmatic and linguistic method, cognitive method, analysis of contextual interpretation. The main results of the study. As a result of the carried out research, we can claim that one of the communicative strategies used by the female detective is the strategy of manipulation. It is explained by communicative tactics of provocation, warning, threats, blackmail, flattery, as well as tactics of false self-presentation. Each of these tactics is marked by certain lexical, syntactic and stylistic means of speech. The ability to control the communicative process and adjust one’s speech actions at individual stages of the dialogue can be considered key to achieving the communicative goal of a female detective. The prospect of further research is a versatile study of linguistic mechanisms of exerting a manipulative influence on the recipient in artistic discourse. The perspective for further research is seen in identifying prosodic means of manipulative impact on the recipient in film discourse.