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Communicative strategy of mitigation in German political discourse (based on the interviews of women-politicians of Germany)
The article examines the communicative strategy of mitigation in the women’s political discourse in Germany, which belongs to the cooperative discourse. The concept of mitigation is described. Mitigation is aimed at softening categorical statements, creating a favorable atmosphere for communication and avoiding conflict in communication in general. The texts of the interviews are analyzed in order to identify and describe the tactics of the mitigation strategy. In the course of the study, the methods of contextological analysis and semantic-stylistic analysis are used, the combination of which makes it possible to identify the actual meaning of the statement and establish their various stylistic functions in political discourse. To confirm the reliability of the results obtained, the method of quantitative calculation was also used