REALIZATION OF EMOTIVITY IN POLITICAL DEBATES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF MEETINGS OF THE GERMAN BUNDESTAG)

Abstract

The article deals with communicative tools that express emotions and are purposefully used by political actors to convince voters of the correctness of their programme. Political rhetoric is the art of persuasively conveying political ideas and messages to voters. Emotions appear more directly in speech, emphasising certain features and nuances. Emotionality is often inherent in the word itself or can be represented in the semantic structure. The main task is to describe emotive components, i.e. linguistic units manifesting a feeling or emotion and acting as one of the elements of the semantic structure of a word, by means of which debate speakers not only express their opinion about events and the current situation, but also disseminate their ideas and, among other things, improve the public image of their party or try to discredit the image of their opponents. The author concludes that political speeches are characterized by complex syntactic constructions. The use of subordinate clauses separately from the main clauses gives the speech a special expression. This technique helps to focus the addressee’s attention on the logical connection between the parts of the statement and make this connection clearer.