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Ideology hidden in the form of Croatian and American political speeches

This paper focuses on four political speeches delivered by two Croatian and two American politicians during political campaigns in their respective countries. Since these politicians represent and are endorsed by the political parties, their speeches are necessarily ideological. Applying the tools offered by critical discourse analysis, which to an extent draws on pragamtic theories, the speeches will be compared in such a way as to point out which formal devices the candidates choose in order to act upon hearers/voters. The aim of the paper is to establish whether some linguistic devices and choices reflect the politicians' ideological stance and whether certain choices are more typical in the representatives of some ideology or not. We conclude that the speakers use certain structures to negatively present the members of the out-group, as well as to divide or to unite the electorate around some goal, but to a different extent, depending on their ideological viewpoint.

political speeches ; critical discourse analysis ; formal linguistic devices ; pragamtics ; ideology

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