Constructionist basis of composing and translating political speeches: A case study of President Trump’s inaugural address

Application of the principles and tenets cognitive linguistics to translation studies rests on assumption that both them employ same meaning process while working with a text. Procedures implemented translate inaugural address American President Trump have been regarded from point view Construction Grammar. The construction is viewed as main unit representing source linguistic material below level paper singles out Trump’s equivalent constructions identical form non-equivalent pairings indicating transformations structure or semantics in original constructions. Syntactical modifications include change word order, grammar tenses omission component, lexical result generalization, carried by words more abstract than those construction; simplification, separate objects features array denoted pairing; specification accentuating detailing particular entities.