COMMUNICATIVE-PRAGMATIC AND FUNCTIONAL-STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GERMAN AND RUSSIAN PUBLIC PARLIAMENTARY SPEECH (PLENARY MEETINGS OF THE BUNDESTAG AND THE STATE DUMA)
The analysis of the German and Russian public parliamentary speech is presented. The linguistic,-cultural, pragmatic and sociolinguistic characteristics of the parliamentary discourse and functional stylistic characteristics of the German and Russian public parliamentary speech were investigated. Both in Bundestag and the State Duma the public parliamentary speech is aimed at a wide range of addressees - politicians, present in the house and people elsewhere, who are concrete persons or representatives of political parties and fractions. Speech communication between them is carried out according to the princip0les of solidification and confrontation. The process of deliberation has the form of oral dialogue. Their speech actions are ritualized. The utterances are produced in the informative (report), argumentative-analytical (discussion on a report) and argumentative (inquiry, retort) genres, belonging to official, business and journalistic styles. In the process of persuasion of political opponents the ideologically marked and evaluative words, emphatic structures, tropes, stylistic and rhetoric figures and polemics are used. Their wide use can result in the hybridization of the functional styles. The choice of the means of persuasion by the German and Russian public speakers equally correlates with the specific features of their world outlook, shared or ethno-nationally specific systems of ideological, moral and cultural values. The individualizing features are peculiar features of the national parliamentary rituals and speech etiquette, systemic peculiarities of the German and Russian languages.