GENRE ANALYSIS IN DONALD TRUMP’S INAUGURATION SPEECH
GENRE ANALYSIS IN DONALD TRUMP’S INAUGURATION SPEECH
Author(s): Alexandra MoraruSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Lexis, Electoral systems
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: Donald Trump; inaugural speech; self-representation;
Summary/Abstract: The present paper analyses the US President’s inauguration speech on January 20th 2017 and seeks to point out how discourse reveals self-representation and social action. Following the ideas of context dependency, meaning in context and relating language to context the research focuses on genre analysis; more precisely Halliday’s triadic schema, whose main domains of interest are: field, tenor and mode. Thus, the study presents the participants, processes and circumstances of the presidential speech in its lexis, as well as discursive markers of the physical distance between speaker and audience.
Journal: Synergies in Communication
- Issue Year: 1/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 206-212
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English