| Summary: | English and Ukrainian polemic discourses of the Reformation period: tactical and strategic hierarchy
The article argues that the tactical and strategic hierarchy in English and Ukrainian polemical discourses of the Reformation period is dominated by strategies as plans of achieving non-verbal goals. The strategies determine the choice of polemical tactics as sets of linguistics rhetorical moves, which aimed at subjecting of models as representations linguistic units usage order. The analysis of the polemical texts of the period under investigation reveals the way the confrontation strategy defines the tactic of alienation, aimed at separating the opponent and the audience. It is found that this tactic is implemented by linguistic moves of opposition, negation and disdain, subjecting isomorphic and allomorphic models.
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