Political (un)culture at risk

Javorčíková, Jana, 1974-

Political (un)culture at risk : a critical reading of political speeches in a "post-truth" era / Jana Javorčíková. -- The study presented herewith, shares the results of critical reading and the following linguistic and cultural research of the political discourse as used by Donald Trump's January 6, 2021 speech, which is believed to have pro- voked violent attacks on the Congress in Washington, D. C. The author fo- cuses on the analysis of specific use of allusion as a semantic modifier, and also refers to other linguistic devices, in which Trump put forward indirect meanings of his speech. The research by Hamed (2021) and Cingerová, Dulebová and Štefančík (2021) served as a theoretical framework for the basis for analysis. As a result, the author arrived at explication of the cul- tural context of Trump's speech and the weight of the cultural references that he used to manipulate the audience: 1. allusions to the cultural herit- age of the USA and 2. the use of polysemantic expressions and 3. the use of emotionally neutral words as allusions to violence in order to manipulate the crowd.

In Jazyk a politika : na pomedzí lingvistiky a politológie 7 : zborník príspevkov zo 7. ročníka medzinárodnej vedeckej konferencie Liďák, Ján. -- Bratislava : EKONÓM, 2022. -- 416 s.. -- ISBN ISBN 978-80-225-4987-5. -- ISSN 2729-8981. -- ISSN 2729-8973. -- S. 148-160