doi: 10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.5.427
An Analysis of Donald Trump’s 2020 RNC Speech from the Perspective of Proximization Theory
Huiyuan Guo
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- Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi, China.
Abstract
The cognitive turn of Critical Discourse Analysis(CDA) marks the commencement of Critical CognitiveLinguistics (CCL), offering a disciplined theoretical perspectiveon the conceptualized linguistic choices which are identified aspotentially ideological. Based on the newly developed theory ofproximization in CCL, this paper sets out to analyze DonaldTrump’s Speech delivered at 2020 Republican NationalConvention. It finds out that the former U.S. president DonaldTrump is most skilled at construing spatial proximization in thediscourse space to legitimate his behavior and ideologicalmanipulation is subtly achieved by him through his combineduse of spacial, temporal and axiological proximizationstrategies.
Keywords
- Political discourse
- proximization theory
- spatial-temporal-axiological model
How to Cite
Huiyuan Guo and Junhong Dong, "An Analysis of Donald Trump’s 2020 RNC Speech from the Perspective of Proximization Theory," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 332-335, 2023. https://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.5.427
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