Linguistic representation of the topos of renewal based on the inaugural addresses of american presidents
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https://doi.org/10.29051/el.v7iesp.8.16396Keywords:
Inauguration speech, Linguistic representation, Cognitive metaphor, Political communicationAbstract
This article mainly attempted to analyze the linguistic representation of the topos of renewal based on the inaugural addresses of American presidents. In the inauguration speeches delivered from 1913 to 2021 by newly elected presidents-members of the Democratic Party of the United States of America, various means of linguistic conveying of the topos of renewal are found. To that end, descriptive methods and corpus-based approaches are utilized. Based on the results, the most widely and frequently used are language units with the semantic of newness, ‘end of old’, ‘change’ and linguistic instruments of attribution of negative attitude to certain facts, actions, periods, events, conditions, and political actors. Along with the stated, the topic of renewal was communicated by attributing negative attitudes to certain facts or periods of life and frequently employed cognitive metaphors with negative source domains like damage, disease, loss, decay, intoxication, destroy, and war.
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