FEATURES OF LINGUISTIC PORTRAIT (BY THE MATERIAL OF BARACK OBAMA’S AND DONALD TRUMP’S INAUGURATION SPEECHES)
Akinina Polina Sergeevna
Vladimir State University named after Alexander and Nikolay Stoletovs
Submitted: 12.11.2018
Abstract. The article analyses the speeches of two politicians - the current USA President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama. The researcher examines the notions "President" and "speech portrait", considers thematic originality and key words of both Presidents’ inauguration speeches, verbal means of persuasion. The analysis allowed the author to conclude on Donald Trump’s and Barack Obama’s speech portraits. The study showed that in political speeches, increasing verbal influence is achieved due to the thoughtful choice of expressive means, and the manipulative function is an integral element of political discourse.
Key words and phrases: речевой портрет, политический дискурс, инаугурационная речь, речевое воздействие, тематическое своеобразие, речевые средства убеждения, манипуляция, speech portrait, political discourse, inauguration speech, verbal influence, thematic originality, verbal means of persuasion, manipulation
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