Speech Acts of Political condemnation
This article analysis discourse features of political condemnations as public macrospeech acts. Combining speech act theory and discourse analysis, the author has described discourse strategies represented in our texts: performative markers of disapproval; linguistic devices intensifying the sense of transgression, and strategies establishing the condemner’s authority. The investigation of our texts has also enabled to define the nature of their main discourse functions: calling for actions addressed at the transgressor or to both parties involved in conflict which is recurrent-cumulative; raising awareness and taking a state which are singular. These two functions are represented in various combinations with each other or with the function “Calling for actions.” As a result of the analysis we argue public macrospeech acts of political condemnation to be interpreted as a core in the demonological model of the foreign policy.