PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES AS A GENRE OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH OSSETIA

The article is devoted to certain peculiarities of actualization of speech strategies in the genre of parliamentary debates in the Republic of South Ossetia. Parliamentary debates is a genre of political discourse which functions as an integral macro unit of discourse due to realization of a number of strategies, among which the most prominent are: incentive to reciprocal reaction, the use of well-founded metaphorical expressions ,intensification of statements. The analysis of factual material discloses the fact that speech techniques showing discursive characteristics of south ossetian parliamentary communication are peculiar to parliamentary discourse as a whole. At the same time the analysis of parliamentary debates in the parliament of RSO helped to reveal specific features of the national political discourse, which is an institutional type of communication, taking place in an ethnic-based register of intercourse. We can point to use of questions in the 3rd person singular on the present topic meant for discovering new information, use of orientation and biological metaphors, personification, (de)intensifiers, downtowners, modal verbs. Metaphoric tone of speech occurs in emotional speech acts mostly. The aim of all these strategies is to reach a definite goal, to draw attention of listeners to the most significant questions on the agenda, propose personal analysis of the current situation, try to criticize the opponent in a polite manner, avoid conflict, make an evasive answer.