Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1818-9601 (Print)
ISSN 2541-8998 (Online)


electoral discourse

Речевые тактики убеждения в современном российском предвыборном дискурсе (на примере президентской кампании 2017–2018 годов)

Mass media are quite frequently used to influence the audience in the contemporary world. That is why the necessity to create a credible mechanism against the undesirable linguistic manipulation causes the research works of this kind. Hence, the use of communicative strategies and speech tactics in discourses of various kinds is widely investigated nowadays. This research is aimed at investigating verbal tactics that are used by Russian politicians in the course of the electoral campaign at their meetings with potential voters.