Linguistic Analysis and Possibility of Analyzing the Character of Politicians: Case study: Donald Trump

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Tehran University

2 Master's Degree Student of Political Science, University of Tehran

Abstract

The empowerment of nationalist populism, because of its violent background, can evoke an uncontrollable fear in us. This fear re-emerged with the victory of Donald John Trump in the US presidential election of 2016 and reminded the memories of the forgotten generation of leaders who, with fiery speeches and populist slogans, stirred up various social classes to conquer the world. Now with the transition of Trump's personality from the time of the campaign to his tenure as president of the United States, we can be more confident in the stability of some of his speech techniques and can analyze it even further. The main question is how can we understand, analyze, and predict Trump's behavior through linguistic-rhetorical reasoning and its methods? Regardless of how successful Trump is in achieving his goals, he employs a number of special techniques and tactics for inculcating his concepts that are not limited to the time of securing votes, and one can expect him to employ them again in meetings with political leaders and people of the other countries. Therefore, dozens of lectures and articles have been scrutinized to find the purposeful delicacies in Trump’s wordings, this master salesman of words. The main purpose of the present article is to provide a better understanding of the literature and content of Trump’s speeches and to make some of his personality traits comprehensible.

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