EVALUATIVE COMPONENT IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF THE UK PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES

Abstract

This article deals with the peculiarities of the evaluation in the UK parliamentary debates as a type of the political discourse. It points out the specific language means influencing positive or negative evaluation in the interactions between the participants of the debates. It also analyses extralinguistic factors that form evaluation of the informative messages during the meetings of the UK House of Commons and House of Lords in the post-Thatcher period.