Discrediting strategy in british political discourse

Tarasova Olesya Nikolayevna

The article deals with the analysis of expressing discrediting strategy in British political discourse. Discrediting strategy is analyzed as a complex of verbal and nonverbal means of communication, used by the speaker. Communicative behavior of both speaker and addressee is considered.

Keywords:political discourse, communicant, speech intention, communicative intention, discrediting strategy, speech tactics, multimodal communication, political debates.