False propositions as a linguistic phenomenon of insincere discourse (using the example of speeches by US politicians)

this article examines the concept of insincerity as a special strategy that generates insincere discourse that functions within the framework of political texts in English. The article presents speech tactics that allow to achieve the set goals in a specific situation. The study gives a more detailed analysis of the tactics of distorting facts and the strategy of insincerity aimed at manipulating the listener's perception. The research material is a corpus of political texts selected by the continuous sampling method on the PolitiFact website (https://www.politifact.com/), which are classified by independent experts as "true" and "false". Theoretical analysis methods for systematizing empirical material, the continuous sampling method for selecting material, and the method of structural-semantic analysis of text for identifying insincere discourse within the text made it possible to select linguistic material and analyze false propositions that attribute false attributes and false actions to objects. The conducted study of the peculiarities of false propositions in modern English-language political texts resulted in the conclusion that the strategy of insincerity is often implemented using the tactics of distorting facts, and represents the construction of false propositions by the speaker in order to achieve their communicative goals.

insincere discourse, false propositions, English-language political texts, speech strategy of insincerity, speech tactics