This article outlines the content of an elective university course designed for domestic and international students, combining language and international relations. The course is intended to make students more sensitive to the linguistic intricacies of a specialist variety of English. The focus is on its written modes, particularly writing and reading academic (professional) texts dealing with complex foreign policy issues. As a result, students are expected to enhance their academic writing skills. The linguistic component of the course is backed up with a review of world affairs. Conversely, the field of international relations theory is enriched by a systematic study of language effects observed in the respective discourse. The interdisciplinarity of this enterprise benefits students with different academic and cultural backgrounds.
The present paper aims at exploring the use of a linguistic means of repetition as a persuasion strategy to achieve a communicative intention in a particular kind of discourse: addresses and opening remarks on COVID-19 related issues delivered at WHO and NCDC media briefings. The main objective is to investigate pragmatic function of repetition as a rhetorical device by means of which the text is assigned intentionality and the address becomes persuasive and manipulative as a consequence. Drawing on the assumption that such addresses lack a conversational space in which interactants would equally participate, a speaker takes a tough stance to bring forward ad hoc issues by utilizing repetition tactically and pervasively. This serves as a contributing factor to strengthening credibility of a speaker’s interpretation of the pandemic crisis and actions proposed. The study highlights that while attempting to persuade, threaten, frighten or deter the audience into sharing a particular opinion of the state of affairs and undertake a proposed action, the speaker utilizes a direct appeal to the audience with the aim of having a specific impact on their opinions or behavior. In such addresses repetition functions as the main linguistic device used for rhetorical purposes.
The article explores the use of English lexemes in Georgian informational-analytical electronic journals and discusses different approaches to the influx of Anglicisms. The paper highlights the fact that attention-drawing strands through intensive use of English vocabulary in journalists’ speech leads to an encounter with a number of English terms that do not fit the current standard of normative speech in Georgian. Nevertheless, the paper asserts that the influx of English lexemes in the Georgian language is predominantly caused by speakers’ desire for economy of form. Instead of providing a partial semantic or explanatory equivalent in their native language, speakers attempt to cover a complex or abstract notion by a straightforward, laconic English lexeme. The study maintains the idea that such non-native units appear to be more cognitively secure and semantically valid. They operate from the solid foundation of the source language and contribute mainly to the formation of syntagmatic units with strong predictability of a new flow of loanword integration into Georgian.
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