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Abstract. This article examines the implicit expression of evaluation in political discourse from a linguopragmatic and critical discourse-analytical perspective. Unlike explicit evaluation, which is directly realized through evaluative adjectives, nouns, verbs, and modal expressions, implicit evaluation is embedded in presuppositions, implicatures, metaphors, irony, contrastive structures, rhetorical questions, lexical choices, syntactic organization, and contextual framing. In political discourse, implicit evaluation performs a persuasive function by guiding the audience toward a particular interpretation without overtly stating the speaker’s attitude. This makes implicit evaluation especially powerful, because it allows political actors to influence public opinion while maintaining an appearance of neutrality, rationality, or objectivity. The article analyzes the main linguistic and pragmatic mechanisms through which implicit evaluation is realized in political texts and speeches. The research is based on the methods of critical discourse analysis, semantic-pragmatic analysis, contextual analysis, and discourse-pragmatic interpretation.
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