HIDDEN THREAT IN PERSONAL AND NON-PERSONAL RHETORICAL QUESTIONS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE (BASED ON THE DATA FROM RUSSIAN AND GERMAN PRESS)
The paper deals with the problems of indirect communication in the political discourse and in particular with such type of implication as hidden threat. The paper notes that when studying hidden threats implicit means of expressing the true meaning of the utterance present considerable interest. The paper attempts to describe a certain type of hint in the political discourse, to make an analysis of this type of hint in the Russian and German political discourse, and to reveal specific features of different types of rhetorical question as a stylistic device to express hidden threats.