Abstract—In regards to ethnic and social stratification, the
Slovak Republic is among the diversified countries and this
stimulates cultural-social, economic, linguistic or ethnic
discourses in society. These stimuli are being noticed by several
political subjects of the extreme right and these subjects then
present them through radical expressive means. These usually
surprise the recipient by their exaggerated catastrophic
scenarios about the state of the country or captivate the
addressee by the attempt of right-wing populists to save the
country or to mobilize the party against the threat. The aim of
such expressions is to arouse negative as well as positive
emotions in the recipient, which means that radical language
strikes at the lowest human urges. It is a typical tool of
right-wing populists which is characterized by several language
strategies and its aim is to draw attention to a given political
party. The interest of the addressee in populist rhetoric
intensifies due to the simplicity of the language which provides
space for an easy interpretation of the message by a wide
spectrum of the public of various age and education levels.
Index Terms—Right-wing populist, language strategy,
expressive means.
Zdenka Kumorová is with the Department of Slovak Language and
Literature at Faculty of Arts of University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Trnava ,
Slovakia (e-mail: zdenka.kumorova@ucm.sk).
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Cite: Zdenka Kumorová, "Aggressiveness and Expressiveness as a Language Strategy in Political Discourse," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 253-258, 2019.