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.

scholarly journals The concept of «crisis» as an instrument of articulation of political interests in the socio-political discourse (by the example of Russian federal and regional mass media)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-74
Author(s):  
Mihail Martynov ◽  
D. Serdyukov
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Symbolic Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Crisis Situations

The article analyzes the concept of «crisis» as an attribute of symbolic politics, which is reflected in the socio-political discourse. The aim was to study the concept of «crisis» as a tool for the struggle of discourses depending on the political interests of actors. The most important source of modern socio-political discourse is the mass media. In this regard, the study of the manifestations of the concept of «crisis» was carried out using the tools of content analysis and qualitative analysis of the text. As a result of the analysis of the content of the Russian federal and regional mass media, the hypothesis that the concept of «crisis» is used in the struggle of discourses, taking semantic meanings determined by the political interests of actors, were confirmed. The predominance of crisis content in the federal press is recorded. It is also noted that the federal and regional media do not so much broadcast a picture of reality, as they take part in the transformation of ideas about this reality. The data and conclusions obtained as a result of the study allow us to further more objectively assess the motivational and substantive aspects of the escalation of crisis situations in the public field.

scholarly journals "Normalisierung nach rechts": Politischer Diskurs im Spannungsfeld von Neoliberalismus, Populismus und kritischer Öffentlichkeit

2015 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Wodak
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
School Children ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Complete Sample ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
The Right

In recent years, we can observe a shift towards the right, in politics and the related political discourse. This paper analyses this development for debates on migration in Austria, while drawing on the concept of "normalisation". The basic assumption is illustrated with an example of Austrian debates following the terrorist attacks in Paris, 7.–9.01.2015. In the quantitative and qualitative analysis of a complete sample of 72 newspaper articles in the period of two weeks in January/February 2015, it becomes obvious that the notion of "unwillingness to integrate" ("Integrationsunwilligkeit"), a completely vague notion (a "floating signifier") which remains undefined and was used only by the right-wing populist party FPÖ in the 1990s, has since moved to the middle of the political spectrum and was suddenly employed by the political mainstream in 2014 and 2015. Moreover, the analysis provides some evidence for the merging of two completely unrelated arguments: an argument about how to deal with non-compliance of adolescent migrant school children with an argument about the prevention of radicalisation in society.

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 The concept of "pandemic" in modern English-language political discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (46) ◽  
pp. 225-233
Author(s):  
Nataliia Shkvorchenko ◽  
Viktoriia Hromovenko ◽  
Yuliia Sharapanovska
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
English Language ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Special Scientific ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Use Of Internet

Real-life is closely linked to speech. How and what we communicate often speaks both about ourselves and about the conditions in which we find ourselves. The same applies to the situation around the coronavirus pandemic. One way or another, it influenced the way and the subject we talk about. In this article, we consider the measurement of speech changes under the influence of a pandemic on the example of the political discourse of English-speaking countries. Our goal was to find out how the coronavirus influenced political discourse and what specific examples can be used to demonstrate this. To carry out research, we used general and special scientific methods, in particular, content analysis, linguistic analysis. Among the sources, we have studied are scientific articles on the research topic, as well as materials of publications of the world's leading media on the research topic. As a result of this work, we concluded that the political discourse reflects the situation around the coronavirus in terms of the speaker and the goals he sets for himself. At the same time, for professional politicians, the pandemic has become a platform for a power struggle, so some of them openly manipulate information. One of the interesting areas of research is the means of communication in a crisis, in particular, the use of Internet memes to demonstrate their political position. This, as well as coronaviral neologisms, need further study.

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 Immigrant Integration Policies in Catalonia (1993-2017)

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-247
Author(s):  
Xavier Casademont
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Integration Policies ◽  
The Way

This article analyzes the political frames of Catalan integration policies that were developed from 1993 to 2017. It explores the way some of the major political issues and concepts surrounding immigration have been constructed in a minority nation. Based on qualitative analysis of the main political documents approved by the Generalitat de Catalunya, we suggest that Catalonia has developed a coherent and inclusive political discourse, based on the recognition of immigration as a constitutive part of its population. However, we detect a utilitarian view on immigration with some elements of its philosophy of integration being unclear.

scholarly journals Semantic and functional characteristics of Latin American political discourse (a case of El Informador)

2019 ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
I. Iakovenko
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Functional Characteristics ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Componential Analysis ◽  
Key Concepts

The research focuses on semantic and functional peculiarities of lexemes libertad, igualdad, justicia, lucha, poder serving to verbalize key concepts of Latin American political discourse and, in particular, the influential Mexican diary El Informador. The investigation is based on the semasiological approach realized in the componential analysis and the semantic-cognitive approach carried out in the conceptual analysis method. The main objectives of the research are: 1)to investigate the semantic structure of the selected units, identify their semes that are regularly implemented in the political discourse; 2)to look for distinctive concepts verbalized by these lexemes; 3) to reveal correspondences between the semes and the concepts studied. The results of the investigation allow us to specify the semantic of the lexemes in the political discourse and justify the use of two fundamentally different approaches for the analysis of the lexical units.

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 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.

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