MEANS OF EXPRESSIVENESS IN AMERICAN POLITICAL DISCOURSE (BASED ON DONALD J. TRUMP’S SPEECHES AT THE TV DEBATES OF 2020)

Abstract

This article examines the means of expressiveness used by the 45th President of the United States in the television election debates of 2020. We studied transcripts of two TV debates, analyzed the functions of the expressive means used and classified them according to linguistic levels. Based on the results of the study, we identified the most frequent means of expressiveness, such as metaphors, idioms, euphemisms and lexical repetition.