Abstract
This research study aims at the analysis of President Donald. J. Trump’s political discourse (his speech) delivered at White House, America on Jan 30, 2018, by discussing it as power discourse. It focuses upon the linguistic and stylistic analysis of president’s political discourse. Hence, the research probes into the detail analysis of how in his speech Donald has used different sentence structures, repetitions, ellipses, parallelism, political jargon, technical vocabulary, figurative language and many other linguistic features. Furthermore, the researcher has also analyzed his speech from the angel of discourse properties his speech exhibits. Since discourses are shaped by power and positioning of the socially conditioned status of the persons, the researcher argues here that his political discourse actually demonstrates Trump’s power position and his ideology as expressed in his speech. Besides, Norman Fairclough’s modal of three levels or dimensions of discourse (Description, interpretation and explanation) has been taken as a theoretical framework of this research study to analyze his speech. The research probes into the detail analysis of how he uses repetitions, ellipses, parallelism, political jargon, anaphoric and anaphoric references in his speech. This is a qualitative research in design and is based on the descriptive analysis. The interpretive analysis as a method has also been adopted to interpret Donald’s speech in framework presented by Fairclough. The significance of the research lies in the fact that it contributes to the field of to the body of Stylistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Political and Visionary Discourse and modern literary theory.
Highlights
Before proceeding further, it is pertinent to discuss the relation between language and society and the positioning of language in social context. Fairclough (2001) has opined about the connection between language and its relation with society and social phenomenon as: ”Linguistic phenomena are social in the sense that whenever people speak or listen or write or read, they do so in ways which are determined socially and have social effects”(p.19)
The research probes into the detail analysis of how in his speech Donald has used different sentence structures, repetitions, ellipses, parallelism, political jargon, technical vocabulary, figurative language and many other linguistic features
Since discourses are shaped by power and positioning of the socially conditioned status of the persons, the researcher argues here that his political discourse demonstrates Trump’s power position and his ideology as expressed in his speech
Summary
It is pertinent to discuss the relation between language and society and the positioning of language in social context. Fairclough (2001) has opined about the connection between language and its relation with society and social phenomenon as: ”Linguistic phenomena are social in the sense that whenever people speak or listen or write or read, they do so in ways which are determined socially and have social effects”(p.19). Fairclough (2001) has opined about the connection between language and its relation with society and social phenomenon as: ”Linguistic phenomena are social in the sense that whenever people speak or listen or write or read, they do so in ways which are determined socially and have social effects”(p.19). He further states in this context, “Linguistic is one strand of the social and whereas all linguistic phenomenon are social, not all social phenomenon is linguistic” (p.19). Text has been defined by Fairclough (2001) in his book Language and Power, Second Edition as:
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