Kritische bewertung in den auftritten von abgeordneten im Deutschen und Ukrainischen parlamentarischen diskurs (kontrastive perspektive)

critical evaluation in speeches of deputies in German and Ukrainian parliamentary discourse (contrastive perspective)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of expression of critical critical evaluation in the speeches of German and Ukrainian opposition deputies during parliamentary sessions. Critical evaluation is a prominent feature of speeches of opposition deputies, since the purpose of such deputies is to is the struggle for power and electorate. In addition, it should be mentioned that critical evaluation in political discourse serves as a secondary way of argument. "Critical evaluation" is understood as consideration and evaluation, which is to identify and eliminate defects, failures. It should be noted that critical evaluation is usually understood as a negative assessment. The body of the research material comprised videos of parliamentary meetings of the Bundestag and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The total volume of videos is 10 hours (5 hours for the German and Ukrainian language groups), where 60 fragments of critical evaluation were distinguished. Speeches of such politicians as A. Gaudand, C. Lindner, A. Weidel, R. Lucassen, F. Petry, A. Hofreiter et al. were selected among German politicians and Y. Tymoshenko, O. Lyashko, O. Sotnik, S. Sobolev, R. Semenukha et al. among Ukrainian opposition deputies. The verbal peculiarities of the expression of critical evaluation in the parliamentary discourse were studied. The research showed that German and Ukrainian deputies are likely to the use a significant number of lexical, syntactic and discursive means, such as repetitions, rhetorical questions, motivational sentences etc. It was discovered that German politicians use lexical units like "falsch", "fehlerhaft" as a marker of critical evaluation, and Ukrainian deputies – "betrayal" and "victory". It should be noted that German opposition deputies use the appeals, and Ukrainian deputies, however, usually use personal pronouns such as "they" and "them". In addition, the speeches of Ukrainian deputies are more aggressive, unlike German politicians.