Manipulating the Mechanism of Epistemic Vigilance in Political and Legal Discourses
OLGA ANATOLYEVNA BARTASHOVA, SVETLANA YEVGENIEVNA POLYAKOVA
Abstract
To achieve the goal of illocution when communicating one has to tackle particular strategic tasks. Communication and speech strategy means a certain plan on an optimum realization of one’s communication intentions. Political speech during elections or advocate defense speech are regarded as persuasive type of texts which actualize strategies and tactics of convincing people of veracity in a particular situation. Within the category of persuasiveness there is a speech manipulation phenomenon which aims modeling the addressee’s behavior. It can be oriented on the mechanism of epistemic vigilance – a cognitive process which allows classifying the incoming information as valid or invalid.