Scholarly Article
Emotions in Public Discourse
Laskowska, Elżbieta
2015-12-04 · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne · Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Abstract
In political discourse, the recipient is collective and intentional. Being a part of public discourse, political discourse abounds in speech acts that have emotive-evaluative function. In the prezent paper, the Author discusses the most frequent evaluative-emotive acts gleaned from parliamentary speeches, and these include: accusations, complaining, bragging, expressing recognition and justification. The methodological Framework adopted by the Author adheres to the model proposed by Aleksy Awdiejew. Another phenomenon observable in public discourse is aggression. Irrespective of this, expressing emotions in public discourse is sometimes ideologically motivated.
Keywords
public discourse, politics, evaluative-emotive speech acts, aggression, ideology
Citation Details
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, pp. 51-63