Nonverbal Communication in a Political Discourse (on the Material of the Television Debates

Student: Lyakhova Angelina

Supervisor: Valery Bukharov

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Applied Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

This paper investigates the use of nonverbal by politicians during a television debate. The work contains not only theoretical material, concerning non-verbal communication and political discourse, but the practical part, which presents the analysis of nonverbal means used by politicians in the telecast "Поединок с Владимиром Соловьевым". The analysis allowed to identify similarities and differences in the use of nonverbal components by the informants.

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