scholarly journals Hyperbolisation in the political discourse of D. Trump

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
Tetyana Chebotar
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Self Presentation

The article analyzes the peculilarities of hyperbolization as a characteristic rhetorical technique in the political discourse of Donald Trump, which was used by the politician with persuasive and manipulative purposes. The features of hyperbolized positive self-presentation in Trump's discourse were described, namely the use of numerous superlatives, positive evaluative constructions, lexical units with superlative semantics, emotionally-colored epithets and intensifiers when describing numerical values.

scholarly journals The discrediting strategy in the pre-election political discourse (based on the example of debates between Donald Trump and Joe Biden)

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 12138
Author(s):  
Diana Abdurakhmanova ◽  
Ekaterina Redkozubova
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Political Activities

Speech manipulation in the pre-election discourse aims to influence the audience in order to increase the number of the electorate and present their political activities in a more favorable way. This article is devoted to the study of ways to achieve this goal using strategies of self-presentation and discrediting. It is known that the political struggle for power at the stage of debate is carried out mainly through a strategy of discrediting. The task of belittling the opponent's status comes to the fore. Such activity involves a set of certain tactics that help to implement it: from the most common tactics of accusation and ridicule to less frequent tactics of exaggeration and unproven undermining of authority. This analysis demonstrates the variety of tactics used by Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the 2020 political debate as part of a discrediting strategy. The result of the study showed that politicians resort more to tactics of open speech influence, which takes place in offhand speech. In addition, the efficiency of the strategy of discrediting in political discourse was revealed.

scholarly journals Polarization and Ideological Weaving in Twitter Discourse of Politicians

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511989122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzana Masroor ◽  
Qintarah N. Khan ◽  
Iman Aib ◽  
Zulfiqar Ali
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
The Political ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The form and functions of political discourse have considerably taken a new orientation with the evolving ways of communication. Twitter is a platform that is increasingly preferred by the political elites for the purpose of gaining public acclaim and propagating political ideologies. The political discourse on Twitter requires a critical attention toward linguistic structures and strategies to uncover the relationship between language and social practices. For this purpose, tweets of two eminent Pakistani political figures are chosen for unmasking a variety of discourse strategies at work from the perspective of critical discourse analysis (CDA) through the socio-cognitive model of ideological square. The analysis uncovers the hidden ideological structures and strategies realized through a number of rhetorical moves in the selected tweets. The cognitive binary of positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation help achieving political domination and legitimization of political actions by controlling the public opinion. The underlying motives vary and are context bound such as the aims to topple a government or to restore public faith in the governance. This research is significant for political discourse analysts as well as the general public, as a means for analytical activism propagated by any CDA inquiry, and paves way for further research in the use of social media platforms for political purposes.

scholarly journals Flexibilisierung und Persuasion

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 133-151
Author(s):  
Goranka Rocco
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Persuasive Strategies ◽  
Labour Market Reforms ◽  
Job Advertisements

The article illustrates and compares some of the persuasive strategies of the political and entre­preneurial discourse on labour market flexibilization in different contexts: within the political discourse on labour market reforms and on socio-democratic/leftist basic values, and within the entrepreneurial communication and self-presentation (job advertisements, annual relations, per­sonnel manager guides).

scholarly journals Communicative Strategies in Political Speech of Donald Trump

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Maryna Darchuk
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Communicative Act ◽  
Communicative Strategy

The article deals with the linguistic and communicative peculiarities of the political discourse of Donald Trump, a presidential candidate in the USA. The focus is on the communicative strategies and tactics, used by the politician in his speech during the election campaign. The attention is paid to language means through which a particular communicative strategy or tactic is realized. Each communicative strategy is seen as a combination of language actions aimed at solving the general communicative task of a speaker. The achievement of such a task is possible only by using certain communication tactics. The strategy intends a combination of speech actions whereas a tactic describes peculiar speech actions that aim to influence listeners at a certain stage of communication. Tactics are dynamic, their change happens promptly throughout the communication process, which provides the flexibility of the chosen strategy. The usage of communicative strategies and tactics depends on the type of discourse. Political discourse is defined as a communicative act in which participants give specific meanings to facts and influence and persuade the listeners. Political speech is a public speech that is addressed to the audience in order to demonstrate the leadership of the speaker and influence the listeners. Communicative strategies used in political speech aim at the realization of the final aim of communication. They are focused on the future and are connected with the forecasting of the situation, that is why their sources should be searched in motives that determine human activity. Donald Trump's goal is to persuade the listeners to vote for him, that is why he delivers his speech using various communicative strategies that increase his chances of winning.

scholarly journals SPEECH PORTRAIT OF A POLITICAL LEADER (BASED ON THE INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE RUSSIAN AND US PRESIDENTS)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rimma R. Galiakberova ◽  
Dilyara B. Garifullina ◽  
Lyutsiya G. Khismatullina
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Communication Analysis ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The Future ◽  
Vladimir Putin ◽  
The Given

An inaugural address is part of the political reality of the country, and represents an essential moment in delivering political visions for the future by presidents. The given paper deals with the inauguration speeches of Vladimir Putin (2018) and Donald Trump (2017) and is aimed at analyzing the role of verbal means in forming the speech portraits of An inaugural address is part of the political reality of the country, and represents an essential moment in delivering political visions for the future by presidents. The given paper deals with the inauguration speeches of Vladimir Putin (2018) and Donald Trump (2017) and is aimed at analyzing the role of verbal means in forming the speech portraits of political leaders. By means of comparative content analysis we looked for grammatical, lexical and stylistic elements peculiar to a specific linguistic persona while comparing the speeches of the presidents as well as we attempted to determine the specific national backgrounds of political discourse. We found out that the speech portrait of a country leader is strongly related to his national identity, mentality and socio-political course of the country. Thus, each president’s inauguration context model is mostly characterized by a different set of linguistic means. The paper findings may be useful for researchers who deal with interdisciplinary studies, political and cognitive linguistics, political discourse and communication analysis.

scholarly journals On the self-presentation in the sport discourse (On the example of mixed martial arts fighters’ discourse)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-392
Author(s):  
Alexander B. Alexeyev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mixed Martial Arts ◽  
Self Presentation

The article considers specific features of MMA fighters’ self-presentation. The strategy of self-presentation was studied predominantly on the basis of the political discourse, but it is used in the sport discourse as well. It has been found out that for self-presentation sportsmen actively use metaphors, epithets, similes, allegories, cliches, actualize such modality and formulas as ‘I am an underdog’, ‘I am the best’, ‘I am like you’.

scholarly journals SPEECH BEHAVIOR: COMMUNICATIVE AND PRAGMATIC ASPECT (ON POLITICAL DISCOURSE BASIS)

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1212-1220
Author(s):  
S.V. Moshcheva
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
The Political ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Pragmatic Aspect ◽  
Made In

The article is devoted to the communicative and pragmatic aspect of an utterance. A review of the basic principles and maxims leading to successful communication is made by the author. The purpose of the investigation involved is to identify actively used speech tactics, their structural features to achieve the perlocution. The material of the research is the political speeches by D. Cameron, a representative of the British Conservative Party. Based on the investigation, some conclusions can be made. In the political discourse self-presentation and accusation / blame tactics are regarded as the most active ones created on the explicature and implicature basis.

THE TACTICS OF ACCUSATION AS A MEANS OF EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ONLINE MASS MEDIA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Екатерина Веселиновна Тенева
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
English Language ◽  
The Political ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Rhetorical Devices

Статья посвящена исследованию тактики обвинения, которая является одним из распространенных способов манипулятивного воздействия на аудиторию. В результате исследования доказано, что для реализации тактики обвинения авторы политического дискурса используют лексические средства с негативным оценочным значением, а также риторические приемы идентификации, самопрезентации или ссылки на авторитет. The present article is devoted to the study of accusation tactics which is one of the most common ways of manipulating the audience. In order to implement the tactics of accusation the authors of political discourse use the words with a negative meaning as well as the rhetorical devices of identification, self-presentation or references to authority.

scholarly journals A Stylistic Study of Repetition and Ideology in Political Discourse: Donald Trump as a Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muayyad Omran Chiad ◽  
Azhar Hassan Sallomi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Final Position ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Different Types

The challenging debates including the political one witness the presence of many ways conveying related views but not totally similar .Repetition is one of these variants which play an essential role in communication as speakers embrace a particular strategy in their choice to accomplish certain tasks. This paper investigates the phenomenon of repetition, its individualities, categories, the motives behind the manifestation of its different types, and the ideological function in the political discourse of Donald Trump, the president of the United States. Both Kemertelidze and Manjavidze’s (2013) model and van Dijk’s (1988) ideological square are adopted to identify the sorts of repetition and ideology accessible in Trump speeches. Thus, repetition in the present study does not only refer to its role as a stylistic cohesive device, but also to its function as a rhetorical device that carries a definite ideology to the audience . The paper reveals that Trump tends to use repetition and specifically anaphora and epiphora as he realizes well how such forms enhance the rhythmic blend of speech owing to the development of intonation and sound uniqueness at initial or final position of a sentence. Additionally, Trump intends consciously to repeat a word, a phrase, and even a sentence to accomplish goals like illumination, prominence, persuasion, warning, making a point memorable, and creating cohesion .Using such a vital instrument , he succeeds to have his own effect or authority  upon listeners, manipulate them, and  accordingly form an attitude.

Linguistic-stylistic features of Donald Trump’s political discourse

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Volkova ◽  
I. V Gerasimenko
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Research Purpose ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structural Method ◽  
Theoretical Base ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Continuous Sampling

The research topic is an analysis of the political discourse of Donald Trump. The research purpose is to identify the linguistic and stylistic features of the politician’s speech. In the course of our work, we used the method of continuous sampling, the system-structural method, the qualitative analysis method, and the translation method. The significance of the research lies in the addition of the theoretical base in the study of linguistic and stylistic means in the field of political discourse.

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