Językowa manipulacja w dyskursie politycznym na podstawie wystąpień Władimira Putina
Linguistic Manipulation in Political Discourse Based on the Speeches of Vladimir Putin

Author(s): Kacper Chałagus
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Literary Texts, Media studies, Communication studies, Sociology, Theory of Communication, Fake News - Disinformation
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: linguistic means of influence; linguistic manipulation; theory of persuasive metaoperators; political discourse
Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to analyze the problem of linguistic manipulation in political discourse. As the research material; two speeches by Vladimir Putin published on YouTube in the early phase of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 were used. In the course of the research; a qualitative analysis was conducted; based on the theory of persuasive metaoperators by Prof. Aleksey Avdeyev; including the division of linguistic means of influence into four independent groups: metaoperators blocking verification; metaoperators causing the “observer effect;” metaoperators changing the hierarchy of the informational system; and metaoperators strengthening pragmatic functions. The article also describes the role of linguistic means of influence in the general concept of political discourse. As a result of the research; the dominant persuasive strategies used by Vladimir Putin were described; including the emphasizing of personal and possessive pronouns in plural forms at the prosodic level and the use of constructions referring to unquestionable concepts such as “fact.”

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