A Pragma-stylistic Analysis of Racism in Donald Trump’s Speeches

Abstract

This study is a pragma-stylistic one which scrutinizes how racism is pragmatically realized by the previous American president Donald Trump so as to shed light on the characteristic features that distinguish his style. Consequently, the current study aims at: (1) Investigating the types of racism used by Donald Trump in his racist speeches, (2) Shedding light on the topics that are always referred to by Donald Trump in his racist speeches, (3) Finding out the pragmatic strategies employed by Donald Trump to issue his racist speeches and pinpoint his style, and (4) Revealing the most prevailing strategies that distinguish Trump’s style.To achieve the aims of the study, the following procedures are followed: (1) Presenting a theoretical background about pragma-stylistics and racism, (2) Choosing some speeches said by Donald Trump at different occasions and analyzing them depending on a model developed by the researchers, and (3) Coming up with certain conclusions.