Persuasive strategies, tactics and techniques of linguistic manipulation of judge in a literary-legal discourse (based on the English novel “The children act” by I. McEwan)

The article examines the strategies, tactics and techniques of linguistic manipulation from the viewpoint of their linguistic and pragmatic potential to perform the function of persuasion. The speech portrait of a judge is formed at the junction of the literary worldview and the formalized procedure of legal proceedings by integrating the units of the literary text and the linguistic markers of legal discourse. The key strategy of the judge's emancipation activity in the novel “The Children Act” by I. McEwan is persuasion (persuasiveness). Within two substrategies (cooperation and pressure), different tactics of linguistic manipulation are identified: the tactic of self-discrediting, the tactic of praise, the tactic of appeal to the interests of the ward; as well as the tactic of interrogation, the tactic of self-presentation of authority, the tactic of authoritarian decision-making, the tactic of discrediting religion. Each tactic is reflected in a certain repertoire of linguistic means, stylistic techniques (emphatic models, imperative-interrogative structures, conditional-subjunctive constructions, etc.), psycholinguistic techniques (creation of “we-group”, formation of “I-context”). The study reveals the significance of these strategies, tactics and techniques of linguistic manipulation in modeling the image of the judge.