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Skrytá aserce jako prostředek jazykové manipulace v současné ruské a české politické publicistice

Title in English Covert Assertion As a Means of Language Manipulation in Contemporary Russian and Czech Political Journalism
Authors

GAZDA Jiří

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Příspěvky k aktuálním otázkám jazykovědné rusistiky (5): pragmatika – syntax – sémantika. Sborník příspěvků z kolokvia Aktuální otázky současné jazykovědné rusistiky VI: pragmatika – syntax – sémantika konaného v Brně 10. května 2019
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Keywords presupposition; covert assertion; political linguistics; language manipulation; propaganda; Russian language; Czech language
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Description The paper is focused on discursive analysis of headlines and journalistic leads of selected texts of contemporary Russian and Czech political journalism, in which assertion and its substitution for presupposition is used as a means of language manipulation. The aim of the study is to show that covert assertion, along with the disproportionate use of expressive lexic and irony, is one of the distinguishing features of non-authentic journalism and propaganda.

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