Christmas Addresses of US Presidents as an Object of Linguistic Research
https://doi.org/10.26907/2658-3321.2023.6.3.545-554
Keywords:
political linguistics, political discourse, rhetoric, Christmas address, linguistic personalityAbstract
The aim of the article is to consider the features of the Christmas address as a genre of presidential rhetoric and to determine the manifestation of individual speech characteristics over state ones. The relevance of the study is determined by the presence of uninvestigated linguistic features of American presidential rhetoric in a comparative aspect. The article analyzes the Christmas addresses of the three presidents of the United States B. Obama, D. Trump and J. Biden and highlights their structural and compositional features. The research methods include descriptive method, stylistic analysis method, analytical method, comparative method. The results have shown that structurally and thematically, the Christmas speeches of the US presidents are universal. The unique rhetorical features of the political figures under consideration are manifested in the lexical content of addresses, the behavioral image of the head of state and the first lady, as well as social and political events inside and outside the country influence the composition of the speech. Research implications lie in the possibility of applying the research results in various special courses in political linguistics, media studies, lexicology, stylistics, intercultural communication, linguoculturology, rhetoric.
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