Inaugural Speech as a Speech Genre of Presidential Rhetoric in Ukrainian and Slovak Political Discourse Cover Image

Інавгураційна промова як мовленнєвий жанр президентської риторики в українському і словацькому політичному дискурсі
Inaugural Speech as a Speech Genre of Presidential Rhetoric in Ukrainian and Slovak Political Discourse

Author(s): Natalia V. Kondratenko
Subject(s): Semantics, Pragmatics, Cognitive linguistics, Politics and communication, Rhetoric
Published by: Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: Inaugural speech; presidential discourse; concept; speech act; communicative strategy;

Summary/Abstract: The inaugural speeches of two presidents – the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on May 20, 2019 and the President of Slovakia Zuzana Čaputová on June 15, 2019 were studied by structural-semantic, linguocognitive and linguopragmatic parameters. The composition and structure of inaugural speeches are considered, the main semantic oppositions and concepts in the inaugural speeches of the Presidents of Ukraine and Slovakia are determined. The communicative intention, the main speech acts, and the communicative strategies on which the ritual presidential discourse is based are characterized.

  • Issue Year: 57/2022
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 33-46
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Ukrainian