Metaphors Trump Lives by: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Trump’s Statements in 2020 Presidential Election Debates

Critical Discourse Analysis of Hedges and Boosters in Iranian TV Election Debates of Presidential Candidates

To win the attention of the audience, presidential candidates rely on their own rhetorical methods. Hedges and boosters as metadiscourse markers have been the focus of many studies as the communicative strategies enabling speakers to soften the force of utterances or moderate their assertive force. TV news was used as the corpus of this study, whereas most of the previous studies have focused o...

Violence Metaphors in Presidential Debates

In an election year, political messaging can become feisty or even violent. In the 2012 U.S. presidential election, Americans were inundated with statements that metaphorically referred to violence, such as “Romney slams Obama” and”Romney slaughtered Obama.” Such expressions grab our attention and resonate with our understanding of actual physical violence. Despite their frequent use in electio...

a critical analysis of ideology in discourse: the case of “the chrysanthemums” by john steinbeck تحلیل انتقادی ایدئولوژی در گفتمان: بررسی ’ گلهای داوودی’ اثر جان اشتاینبک

چکیده امروزه‚ اعتقاد بر این مطلب که زبان تنها ابزاری جهت برقراری ارتباط نبوده‚ بلکه وسیله ای در جهت شکل گیری هویت‚ ارزش ها‚ وایدئولوژی های اعضای جامعه می باشد به طور گسترده ای فراگیر شده است. بنابر این‚ گفتمان ها بی تاثیر از ایدئولوژی پدید آورندگان نبوده و متعاقبا بر درک خوانندگان یا شنوندگان از حقیقت تاثیرگذارند. فیرکلاف (2003) بر این باور است که گفتمان ها به واسطه ایدئولوژی غالبی که در خود د...

A Critical Assessment of the Determinants of Presidential Election Outcomes

Trump vs. Hillary: What Went Viral During the 2016 US Presidential Election

In this paper, we present quantitative and qualitative analysis of the top retweeted tweets (viral tweets) pertaining to the US presidential elections from September 1, 2016 to Election Day on November 8, 2016. For everyday, we tagged the top 50 most retweeted tweets as supporting or attacking either candidate or as neutral/irrelevant. Then we analyzed the tweets in each class for: general tren...