Impoliteness on the political stage

The case of the 2019 final Macedonian presidential debate

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ID21825989
AuthorsSilvana Neshkovska (0000-0003-4417-7783, University "St. Kliment Ohridski" - Bitola, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume16
Issue2
Pages285-304
Publication date2020-12-16
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLodz Papers in Pragmatics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1895-6106 • E-ISSN: 1898-4436
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/lpp-2020-0013
OpenAlexW3130025311
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

Electoral debates are a win-lose game in which the stakes for the political contenders are extremely high. The antagonistic nature of these encounters very frequently results in impoliteness or face aggravating moves with which the debaters aim to hurt the opponent’s positive or negative face. The aim of this research is to investigate the impoliteness strategies employed by politicians during electoral debates. Garcia-Pastor’s (2008) positive-face and negative-face impoliteness strategies are taken as a starting point in the analysis at hand. The final electoral debate of the 2019 presidential elections in the Republic of North Macedonia is used as a data source for this research, which is based on several different hypotheses and is both qualitatively and quantitative oriented. The findings of the research are in line with the insights gained from previous studies, which, more or less, suggests that Macedonian politicians follow the mainstream “rules” when it comes to using impoliteness in political debates

Adversary · Economics · Garcia · Humanities · Linguistics · Macedonian · Mainstream · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Presidential system · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

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