Communicative Evasion Strategy in Television Discourse: Issues of Analysis
Isaeva Snezhana Nikolaevna
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Submitted: 02.05.2020
Abstract. The purpose of the study is to identify the most frequent cognitive mechanisms of obscuring information, which underlie the evasion strategy, using the material of television talk-show interviews. Scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that specifics of realising the communicative evasion strategy in television discourse is for the first time considered from the cognitive-pragmatic perspective. The attained results have shown that one of the most common cognitive mechanisms of the evasion strategy is the mechanism of full change of a reference situation / event / object, which is implemented at the verbal level, among other things, via such lexical and syntactic means as adverbs, parenthetical words and reverse questions.
Key words and phrases: стратегия уклонения, уклонение, теледискурс, ток-шоу, когнитивные механизмы, смена референтной ситуации / события / объекта, evasion strategy, evasion, television discourse, talk-show, cognitive mechanisms, change of reference situation / event / object
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