COMMUNICATIVE TACTICS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF MANIPULATION STRATEGY IN ENGLISH DETECTIVE

Abstract

The present article contains the results of the study of the communicative strategy of manipulation and the communicative tactics that manifest it. The analysis is based on the data from English detective novels. The object of the study is the characters’ speech: the detective’s interrogation of witnesses and suspects. The scope of the study is the communicative tactics applied by the detective to manipulate witnesses and suspects. The purpose is cognitive and pragmatic analysis of the communicative tactics applied by the detectives to manipulate the witnesses and suspects. The investigation is based on the general and special linguistic methods: synthesis and analysis, method of observation, descriptive method, pragmatic and linguistic method, cognitive method, analysis of contextual interpretation. The main results of the study. The article suggests expanding the list of criteria that determine the structural and communicative-pragmatic features of interrogations, by adding another criterion, namely the criterion of interrogation formality degree. The offered criterion has turned out to be crucial for the investigated data, rich in the episodes in which the detective manages to obtain the necessary information due to his promise not to add the received information to the case. Thus, informal interrogation takes place. The cognitive and pragmatic analysis of the detective’s strategic plan has resulted in our own classification of communicative tactics and strategies applied by the detective during the interrogation of witnesses and suspects. It has been established that one of the major communicative strategies used by the detective is manipulation. Manipulation is realized by the following communicative tactics: provocation, warning, menace, blackmail, persuasion, flattery. Each of these tactics is manifested by certain lexical, morphological and syntactic means of the English language. The perspective for further research is seen in the comprehensive study of the linguistic mechanisms of manipulative impact on the recipient in fiction.