Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The rhetorical features of the speeches of Sergey Nikolaevich Bulgakov as a deputy of the Second State Duma of the Russian Empire (1907) are studied. The questions of the formation of the Russian parliamentary discourse and the specifics of the speech behavior of a new type of public politician — a representative of the scientific intelligentsia — in the conditions of an emerging institution of power are investigated. The goal is to compile a rhetorical portrait of S. N. Bulgakov, a parliament speaker, revealing the characteristic features of his individual style. The material was provided by the verbatim reports of the sessions of the Second State Duma. Speech profiling was carried out with analysis according to selected parameters (pre-parliamentary rhetorical experience, activity, argumentation, speech structure, expressive means, conventionalism of behavior). The results showed that Bulgakov's rhetoric was based on the traditions of Russian academic eloquence, which is characterized by moral-ethical and Christian pathos realized in secular forms, logicality, structuring and high conventionality of speech, openness to discussion with a low level of verbal aggression, adaptation of professional economic expertise for a non-professional audience. It is concluded that S. N. Bulgakov represented the type of a responsible intellectual parliament speaker whose style did not correspond to the aggressive atmosphere of the pre-revolutionary Duma, which became one of the reasons for his disappointment in parliamentary activity.
Source: Nauchnyi Dialog
Author: S. A. Gromyko
Institution: Vologda State University
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $247
OpenAlex ID: W7214293289