Особливості функціонування лексико-граматичних і стилістичних засобів інтенсифікації англомовних політичних промов жінок-політиків

Abstract

У статті здійснено аналіз особливостей функціонування стилістичних засобів, покликаних інтенсифікувати дієвість виголошуваних ідей у промовах Гіларі Клінтон у період підготовки та під час президентської виборчої кампанії. Дослідження дозволило з’ясувати типові образні та синтактико-стилістичних засоби, до переліку яких належать метафори, синтаксичні повтори, паралелізм, анафора, риторичні питання і спонукальні конструкції. Розкрито їхню роль у формуванні та поглибленні позитивного образу жінки-кандидата у президенти. The article analyses the stylistic means use aimed at enhancing efficiency of ideas which Hillary Clinton utters in her speeches before and during the presidential election campaign. Our findings have shown that the typical figurative and, syntactic and stylistic means includes metaphors, syntactic repetition, parallelism, anaphora, rhetorical questions and incentive constructions. It reveals their role for the formation and intensification of the female presidential candidate’s positive image. Metaphors is characterized by the special capacity for creating a certain world view image, in particular, what discursive activity of politician is concentrated on to create one’s own positive image, convince a listener, get electoral advantages and the like. We have examined typical examples of metaphor functioning in H. Clinton’s speech as an effective means of expressivity. The act of gratitude presented by a numerous metaphors provides the foundation for Hillary Clinton’s further self-presentation potential increase of the speech she is making. It gives the ground to assert about Hillary Clinton’s typical tendency to forming her own image of a successful political figure through accentuation on the belonging to the party with efficient country’s leaders, who are able to inculcate effective political platforms and defend national values. Social metaphor review demonstrates that political events can be projected in such social areas as «war», «crime» and «sport». Besides a wide range of lexical intensifiers, Hillary Clinton often uses such persuasive technique as rhetorical questions through the mediation of deep religious aspect reflection. The effectiveness of this is provided by applying a series of rhetorical questions and lexical units. Our results show that rhetorical questions are characterized by a high frequency of occurrence in the speeches of various genres, such as pre-election speeches to mass audience, debates, and specific occasion speeches.