An Analysis of Trump’s 2016 Campaign Speeches from the Perspective of Social Force in Force-dynamics Theory

Using Donald Trump’s presidential campaign speeches from 2016 as its corpus, this paper takes Talmy’s (1988) force-dynamics theory as a framework for deconstructing and analyzing political discourse from a cognitive perspective. In view of Newton’s second law of classical mechanics, this study analy...

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Published in:	Theory and practice in language studies 2019-09, Vol.9 (9), p.1118-1124
Main Author:	Wang, Yunyou
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Audiences Campaigns Clinton, Hillary Rodham Cognition Cognition & reasoning Cognitive models Discourse Discourse analysis Discourse strategies Election results Elections Emotions Figurative Language Grammar Ideology Linguistics Measurement Mechanics (Physics) Metaphor Metonymy Physics Political Attitudes Political campaigns Political Candidates Political discourse Politics Presidential elections Presidents Resistance (Psychology) Semantics Semiotics Simulation Social Cognition Social dynamics Social systems Speeches Theory Trump, Donald Trump, Donald J Voters
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