Bublyk I. Communicative-pragmatic and linguistic-stylistic aspects of verbal aggression realization in German Bundestag parliamentary discourse

The object of the research is expressions which depict the verbal aggression realization in the present-day Bundestag parliamentary discourse of the Federal Republic of Germany. The purpose of the research is to determine verbal aggression strategies and tactics in the parliamentary discourse of the Federal Republic of Germany and to distinguish linguistic and stylistic characteristics of the verbal aggression realization. The methods of the research represent the complex functional and semiotic approach including system-and-functional and context-and-situation methods, intentional and pragmasemantic analysis, the method of paraphrasing and transformation. The novelty: In the research for the first time the complex approach towards the parliamentary discourse studies is grounded and used: it unites linguostylistic and linguopragmatic aspects of the public verbal activity of the political establishment; parliamentary discourse verbal aggression strategies and tactics which represent an instrument of distruction of the image of a political rival are classified; the lexicosemantic and stylistic means of verbal aggression realization in the parliamentary discourse of the Federal Republic of Germany are described; the definition of the image of a politician with reference to the parliamentary discourse is specified. Theoretical value of the research is determined by the development of the complex pragmatic and stylistic approach towards verbal aggression studies in the parliamentary discourse; the description of verbal aggression strategies leads to the development of the methodological basis of communicative linguistics and the theory of communication; the received data about verbal aggression strategies and tactics in German parliamentary discourse supplement the data about conflict communication accumulated in psycho-, socio- and pragmalinguistics; the methods used enrich the methodological basis of these branches. Practical value of the research lies in the fact that its results can be used in the courseson German lexicology (“Lexical Semantics”), German stylistic (“Functional stylistic”), in special courses on communicative linguistics, German linguistic studies and image studies, in the research work of students and post-graduates.