CRITICAL STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN POLITICAL LANGUAGE

Abstract

The present study investigates American political language critical stylistically. This study is an attempt to show the way that American politicians utilizing stylistic choices which shape the ideological meanings in the written or spoken texts. Thus, the study aims at: (1) how the category of ‘Naming and Describing’ can create ideological meanings in American political language. (2) how these ideologies are not evident in the texts. To achieve the main aims of the study the following procedures are adopted: (1) presenting a theoretical framework about language in general and language of politics and language and ideology in particular with indication to the model of the analysis. (2) analyzing sex speeches of American politicians from different parties according to the selected model of the analysis. The collection of the texts was taken from various reliable websites