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Contemporary American Political Discourse: a Study of Content, Structure, and Formation Featuresстатья
- Автор: Bystrov Nikita Aleksandrovich
- Журнал: Professional Discourse and Communication
- Том: 6
- Номер: 2
- Год издания: 2024
- Первая страница: 35
- Последняя страница: 48
- DOI: 10.24833/2687-0126-2024-6-2-35-48
- Аннотация: This paper examines the defining characteristics of contemporary American politicaldiscourse, aiming to identify, analyze, and classify these traits in terms of content, structure, andformative features. The analysis draws upon a corpus of speeches by American politicians duringthe 2016 and 2020 Presidential Elections, as well as journalistic articles, to illustrate the distinctiveelements of American political discourse. Understanding a nation’s political discourse necessitatesexamining the idiosyncrasies of its political culture. Therefore, this study foregrounds the culturalunderpinnings of modern American politics, exploring the interrelationships between American political discourse and the nation’s political history and culture. Employing discourse analysis, linguacultural analysis, and comparative analysis, the paper delineates the characteristics of modern Americanpolitics, including societal heterogeneity, the imperative of political correctness, a pronounced degreeof religiosity, an individualistic political culture, and the dramatized nature of political contention.These cultural traits manifest in four salient features of contemporary American political discourse: asyntactic orientation in speech production, the employment of nicknames and sobriquets, the fluidityof political concepts, and the contentious exchanges between the two predominant parties, whichengender linguistic divergences. While some features may be present in other national discourses, theunique combination and intensity in the American context accentuate their presence. This paper contributes to political discourse studies by examining political discourse through a linguacultural lens,thereby enhancing understanding of American society and its worldview. It underscores the pivotalcultural attributes of American politics, correlates them with political discourse, and presents concreteexamples from speeches of current American politicians and contemporary media, laying the groundwork for future research into American political discourse from a linguacultural standpoint.
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