LINGUISTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSION IN NEW YEAR’S SPEECHES OF FRENCH-SPEAKING POLITICIANS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of realisation of pragmatic influence in New Year’s speeches of French-speaking politicians through linguistic means of expression. The analysisis based on contemporary French political discourse, namely the texts of speeches by French President Emmanuel Macron, French Ambassador to Singapore Minh-di Tang, King Philippe I of Belgium, and President Alassane Ouattara of Côte d’Ivoire. Expression is clearly manifested in the speeches of politicians, which are a key to international communication, persuasion and shaping public opinion in the modern world. They influence political decisions, public attitudes to important issues and contribute to the development of democracy. Every year, millions of people in the country are waiting for the New Year’s address of politicians. The speech on the eve of the transition from the past to the future is a powerful political and propaganda tool that models national identity. The annual New Year’s address belongs to the ritual genre of political discourse, which has its own linguistic features. In particular, the author softheart icle distinguish such lexical means as nouns and verbs with positive connotations, 1st and 2nd person plural pronouns and the superlative degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs. At the syntactic level, parallelism, parcellation, verbs in the imperative mood, inversion, elliptical sentences, insertion and selective phrases are used. The most commonly used stylistic devices are epithets, anaphora, reprise, contrast and rhetorical questions.