The Discursive Construction of Trump’s Speeches Concerning Sino–US Trade
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- Keywords: Appreciation; Attitude; corpus; Graduation; Judgment ━
- Abstract: As the trade war escalates, relevant discourse studies should keep pace with it. This study applies Appraisal Theory as the analytical framework, and uses the UAM Corpus Tool to build a corpus composed of 132 of Trump’s White House weekly speeches and speeches on specific international occasions from November 2018 to August 2019. The research discusses the discourse strategy and identity formation according to attitude distribution. The conclusions can be made: (1) Trump exercises a “deviating” discourse strategy, which helps support his views; (2) the “identifiable distinction” of Trump’s economic discourse lays a solid foundation for the attitude resources in them.
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