UNDERSTATEMENT AS A MECHANISM REALIZING A PARTICULAR «SELF – OTHER» COGNITIVE MATRIX

UNDERSTATEMENT AS A MECHANISM REALIZING A PARTICULAR «SELF – OTHER» COGNITIVE MATRIX

Author:  A.M. Nekhorosheva

Affiliation:  Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin

Abstract: 
The mechanism of understatement realizing a particular «self – other» cognitive matrix in German political discourse (the case of the German chancellor Angela Merkel) is studied.

Keywords:  particular «self – other» cognitive matrix, cognitive mechanism of understatement, political discourse