%0 Journal Article %A Zarine Avetisyan %D 2015 %J International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 102, 2015 %T Speech Impact Realization via Manipulative Argumentation Techniques in Modern American Political Discourse %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10001419 %V 102 %X The present paper presents the discussion of scholars concerning speech impact, peculiarities of its realization, speech strategies and techniques in particular. Departing from the viewpoints of many prominent linguists, the paper suggests that manipulative argumentation be viewed as a most pervasive speech strategy with a certain set of techniques which are to be found in modern American political discourse. The precedence of their occurrence allows us to regard them as pragmatic patterns of speech impact realization in effective public speaking. %P 1808 - 1813