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Contrastive Analysis Of Pleonasm

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INTRODUCTION
The present research paper dwells on contrastive analysis of pleonasm in Ukrainian and Anglophone political discourses. In political texts in general and speeches in particular, ideas and ideologies need to be conveyed through language, words and expressions are used in different ways to affect the meaning. Language system has great potential of redundant language means which can be imployed in speech in various ways. Redundancy in representing meanings of notions is a basis for a pleonasm. Elements which at the first sight lack meaningful load may contribute to coherence and cohesion of a text, underlining and justifying its main idea. Difficulty of defining pleonasm as a language phenomenon causes its ambiguous interpretation in modern linguistics.
Ukrainian and foreign scholars turned to the issue of pleonasm many times, regarding functional and stylistic aspects of the phenomenon in particular. Among them we have to mention such scientists as John Berkman, V. Vinogradov, S. Denysko, D. Holobaev, L. Kulishenko, A. Saharovskyi, A. Selivanova, V. Shyprykevych, I. Yaroshchuk and others.
Texts within the political discourse have been researched by a great number of scholars. The following ones have to be mentioned:

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