Linguopragmatics of New Year's Address as a Ritual Genre of Political Discourse: Comparative Analysis on Material from the Slavic Languages Cover Image

Лингвопрагматика новогоднего обращения как ритуального жанра политического дискурса: сопоставительный анализ на материале славянских языков
Linguopragmatics of New Year's Address as a Ritual Genre of Political Discourse: Comparative Analysis on Material from the Slavic Languages

Author(s): Natalia V. Kondratenko
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: New Year’s address; presidential discourse; speech genre; communicative strategy; intention
Summary/Abstract: The article presents a comparative analysis of the speech genre of political discourse – the president’s New Year’s address to the people. New Year’s address is characterized as a ritual genre and is considered in the linguopragmatic aspect. The features of the ritual political discourse reflected in the speech genre of the New Year’s address are studied. A typology of communication strategies relevant to the presidential discourse in the New Year’s address is proposed. The linguistic features of the implementation of strategies and tactics of the communicative interaction of the president with the people in the New Year’s address are indicated. The New Year’s speeches of the presidents of Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Russia presented on New Year’s Eve 2022 are analyzed.