The linguistic means of persuasive communication in the election campaign discourse

The article discusses the linguistic means of the speaker's influence on the audience in order to persuade them. The article is based on the public speeches transcripts of Barack Obama, John McCain and Dmitrii Medvedev in 2007-2008.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: J Baghana, E A Bocharova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2009-06-01
Series:Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/9276