Means of Actualising Opposition "Them – Us" in Boris Johnson’s Inaugural Speech
Radyushkina Anna Anatolyevna, Frolova Yulia Olegovna
The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Submitted: 08.07.2021
Abstract. The paper aims to identify the characteristic strategies and tactics and their functions, as well as lexical and syntactic means that represent the opposition "them – us" in the inaugural speech of the 77th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Scientific novelty of the study lies in describing linguistic means of actualising the opposition "them – us" on the basis of the material of B. Johnson’s political discourse during the Brexit period in Great Britain. As a result of the study, the authors have identified reference of the opposition "them – us", described various means of their naming, determined patterns in Boris Johnson’s choice of strategies and tactics, which are accounted for by the nature of the political relations between the opposition members.
Key words and phrases: дискурс, англоязычный политический дискурс, стратегии и тактики политического дискурса, политический дискурс Б. Джонсона, оппозиция "свои - чужие", discourse, English-language political discourse, strategies and tactics of political discourse, B. Johnson’s political discourse, opposition "them – us"
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