Open AccessTaking a Marked Stance through Evaluative Lexical Items: A Study of Selected Features of Obama’s and Trump’s Inaugural Speeches
Author(s) -
Arkadiusz Janczyło
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
forum filologiczne ateneum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2353-2912
DOI - 10.36575/2353-2912/1(9)2021.061
Subject(s) - possessive , linguistics , determiner , personal pronoun , psychology , ideology , politics , noun , political science , philosophy , law
The paper presents an analysis of Obama’s and Trump’s inaugural addresses with a view to evidencing how language can be manipulated and also reveal the speaker’s political and ideological stance through the use of marked and evaluative lexical items. The language sample selected for analysis contains personal pronouns and possessive adjectives ‘you, your, we, us, our, ours, ourselves, they, their, them, themselves’, determiner ‘other’ and the term ‘America’ with all its derivative forms as used in the two speeches.