Allusions and quotations as a means of representing emotions in the Russian and English financial discourse

Abstract

The article investigates the functions of allusions and quotations in the Russian and English public speeches relating to financial discourse. In both languages allusions and quotations are used by speakers in order to reach a number of pragmatic goals. However, within financial discourse these emotive tools differ across the two languages in terms of the thematic groups they belong to.

Keywords

• эмотивность
• финансовый дискурс
• прагматика
• аллюзии и цитаты