Manipulative Speech Techniques in Political Discourse

The article is devoted to the analysis of manipulative strategies and tactics in political discourse. The analysis is based on Donald Trump’s speech, which was delivered at the UN General Assembly in 2018. The paper studies the manipulative speech strategies and tactics used by the politician, their characteristic features, linguistic peculiarities of their implementation and the aims of their use. Political discourse defines the necessity to use certain speech strategies and tactics in political speeches, which altogether are aimed at creating an image of a politician and manipulating the consciousness of listeners. Implementation of such strategies and tactics in a proper way can evoke the desired emotional response and have an effect on choices people make. Every politician is unique in using their own strategies and tactics, but, in most cases, such tactics are more or less similar as their target is to create a positive image and make people follow or believe this or that politician.

Personal self-development as the base of evolution of the modern legal education: theoretical and legal position

The objective of the research is the analysis of the problem of higher legal education in the context of uncertainty of the modern social and cultural space, processes of the widespread standardization of the educational environment, development of the strictly informational and cognitive and formatted thinking. The methodological base of the research is the universal, general scientific and specific scientific cognitive methods used by the legal science in the object-subject scope of cognition of the general theory of law. Besides, some synthetic, integrative methods of research are used that are part of the methodology of interdisciplinarity, actual for the modern socio-humanistic science. The result of the research is the grounded author’s legal position of the advisability of the personal self-development of a student as well as a teacher without whom the obtaining of the qualitative higher legal education seems problematic and also the performing of the professional legal activity in the moral legal direction. The authors also prove that the formation and development of the modern legal consciousness and legal culture of the lawyer shall be based upon the universal and generally accepted ideas of the significance of personal rights and freedoms, postulated during the course of education as well as by the personal development. The novelty of the paper is this problem statement that was not expressed before by the scientists as the subject of research