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Tsarkova O.A., Morozova A.N. [Language features and discourse characteristics of the term “authority” in public speeches of B. Obama] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2022, Vol. 13, No. 2. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/41FLSK222.pdf (in Russian).

Language features and discourse characteristics of the term “authority” in public speeches of B. Obama

Tsarkova Olga Aleksandrovna
Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Samara, Russia
E-mail: tyurina@sgspu.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7335-3240
РИНЦ: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=1134004

Morozova Alevtina Nikolaevna
Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Samara, Russia
E-mail: morozova@pgsga.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2741-0926

Abstract. Although much attention has been given to the concept of power in political discourse, the methodology and methods of analyzing it in terms of the impact function have not received all the attention they deserve. Having chosen the term “authority” as an object of analyses, the authors consider its realization in terms of the three-level method, aimed at establishing the interrelationship between the global purport of the text and linguistic means of its expression. The paper presents the results of analysis of the term under consideration in public speeches of B. Obama. The authors argue that the content and the expression of syntagms comprising this word serve to create a variety of metasemiotic purports which, in their turn, become the expression plane the intended ideologically grounded meta-meta-message. Syntagms are viewed as basic text constituents, the functional-pragmatic characteristics of which are determined by the unity of colligation and collocation, and are fully revealed against the background of certain stylistically marked language means, such as deixis; adjectives with adherent connotation; phonological, lexical, and syntactic parallelism; synonymic condensation; allusion. This article represents the results of analysis, conducted as a part of a PhD research and is suitable for both linguists having a scientific focus in political discourse and people who take sufficient interest in politics.

Keywords: power; political discourse; authority; three-level method; syntagm; colligation; collocation

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