LINGUO-STYLISTIC PECULIARITIES OF POLITICAL SPEECHES (BY THE EXAMPLE OF DONALD TRUMP’S PUBLIC SPEECHES)
Porchesku Galina Vasil'evna, Rubleva Ol'ga Sergeevna
Vyatka State University
Submitted: 26.10.2018
Abstract. In the article, the authors present the results of the research of the linguo-stylistic peculiarities of political speeches by the example of Donald Trump’s public speeches, where various linguo-stylistic methods to create expressiveness are actively used. At the syntactic level, these are syntactic parallelism, emphatic constructions, and inversion; at the lexical level - lexical repetitions, epithets, antithesis and metaphor. The use of different types of language means makes the president’s speeches emotional, figurative and memorable, the high degree of expressiveness allows influencing the audience’s minds and receiving the implied response more efficiently.
Key words and phrases: политическое выступление, лингвостилистические особенности, средства создания экспрессивности, образность, эффективность политического выступления, political speech, linguo-stylistic peculiarities, means of creating expressiveness, figurativeness, effectiveness of political speech
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