RT bachelor thesis
T1 Discourse Analysis
T2 Análisis del discurso
A1 Vázquez Jiménez, Lucía
A2 Filología
K1 discourse
K1 linguistic devices
K1 critical discourse analysis (CDA)
K1 political discourse
K1 persuasion
K1 Obama
K1 Trump
K1 discurso
K1 recursos lingüísticos
K1 análisis crítico del discurso (ACD)
K1 discurso político
K1 persuasión
AB The use of hedging, the rule of three or conceptual metaphor among other resources, are important and very common characteristics of the language style in political speeches. Through the use of these linguistic devices, politicians can achieve several results in their speech such as attenuate sensitive information or facilitate the understanding of complex concepts to the audience. This paper analyzes six linguistic devices which are the most used: hedging, the rule of three, deixis, contrastive pairs, anaphora and parallelism and metaphors, through the transcriptions of the speeches of the last two US presidents, Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The use of such devices has an effect on the audience and contributes to a more effective and persuasive speech, and at the same time is helpful to determine the style of each president.
YR 2017
FD 2017-09
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/20019
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/20019
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 07-nov-2026