EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND LINGO-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF INFORMATION DISTORTION IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of epistemological and lingo-cognitive bases of the political discourse. The speaker’s manipulative impact is discussed within the framework of analyzing speaker’s discourse strategy mechanisms. The results of the study revealed that politicians use discourse markers and deictic expressions likewe identifying the politician’s role within a certain group. The discourse markers (as) you know, weallknow are able to distort the information and their use by the speaker creates an illusionof the knowledge being shared by the general audience.