• Original research article
  • November 25, 2009
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INAUGURAL DISCOURSE: CONCEPTUAL-TERMINOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE-PRAGMATICAL BASES (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE INAUGURAL SPEECHES OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS)

Abstract

The article is devoted to such phenomenon as inaugural discourse which is a subdiscourse of presidential discourse in the system of general political discourse. Inaugural discourse has huge cognitive-pragmatical potential reflecting such basic features of this type of discourse as persuasiveness and suggestiveness.

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Elena Anatolyevna Morgun

St.-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance

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Publication history

  • Published: November 25, 2009.

Keywords

  • дискурс
  • инаугурационный дискурс
  • концепты
  • персуазивность
  • суггестивность
  • discourse
  • inaugural discourse
  • concepts
  • persuasiveness
  • suggestiveness

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