IMPOLITENESS ON THE POLITICAL STAGE: THE CASE OF THE 2019 FINAL MACEDONIAN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

Neshkovska, Silvana (2020) IMPOLITENESS ON THE POLITICAL STAGE: THE CASE OF THE 2019 FINAL MACEDONIAN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, 16 (2). pp. 285-304.

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Abstract

Abstract
Electoral debates are a win-lose game in which the stakes for the political contenders
are extremely high. The antagonistic nature of these encounters very frequently results
in impoliteness or face aggravating moves with which the debaters aim to hurt the
opponent’s positive or negative face.
The aim of this research is to investigate the impoliteness strategies employed by
politicians during electoral debates. Garcia-Pastor’s (2008) positive-face and
negative-face impoliteness strategies are taken as a starting point in the analysis at
hand. The final electoral debate of the 2019 presidential elections in the Republic of
North Macedonia is used as a data source for this research, which is based on several
different hypotheses and is both qualitatively and quantitative oriented. The findings
of the research are in line with the insights gained from previous studies, which, more
or less, suggests that Macedonian politicians follow the mainstream “rules” when it
comes to using impoliteness in political debates.
Keywords
impoliteness strategies, positive and negative face, electoral debates

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Education
Depositing User:	Prof. d-r Silvana Neshkovska
Date Deposited:	20 Apr 2023 05:32
Last Modified:	20 Apr 2023 07:49
URI:	https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/8115

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