Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی
Author
Azad Islamic University, Branch of Chalous
Abstract
This Research is trying to focus on Donald Trump's inaugural speech of January 20,2017, and some of his Twitter messages until June 2018, while meeting and agreeingwith the North Korean leader. This study, based on the combined interpretationmethodology, relies on content analysis and Discourse analysis at the levels ofdescription, interpretation, and explanation and answers this question: Whatmetaphors have there been in the political linguistics of Donald Trump? Also, howcan these metaphors, in terms of form, content, historical tradition, the way they useand language mechanisms, be analyzed and interpreted by the United States foreignand interior policy, as audience communities? In response to the research’s question,the hypothesis of this study is that Trump ›s metaphors take advantage of the contentof classical conservatism thought, as the strict father, oriented, contradictory andstructural. Regarding the type of metaphors, »combined and anaphoric, with theuse of the private sphere language in the public domain.« For the form of metaphors:differentiator and bipolar, and its refelection in interior policy is an aggressivenationalism with the image of economic nationalism. In foreign policy is inconsistentwith globalization, hardware, economics, and because of the impact of audience oncommunities, relying on disturbing and nostalgic metaphors. Therefore, in view of theextent of the domestic and international influences of this metaphorical language, aswell as the increase of linguistic tension between Iran and the United States in 2018, itis considered important to study and research.
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