Barack Obama’s presidential memoranda of 2016: lingual and cultural codes

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Barack Obama’s presidential memoranda of 2016: lingual and cultural codes

Journal Title: Science and Education a New Dimension - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 116

Abstract

Presidential memoranda are viewed as a separate speech genre of presidential discourse. Barack Obama’s memoranda of 2016 have made the corpus of research and their linguocultural codes have been singled out. Having conducted the content-analysis of texts belonging to different thematic groups using Tropes (a Natural Language Processing and Semantic Classification software), the author substantiates the existence of specific linguocultural coding of the studied texts. Situational preferences which characterize the combina- bility of lingual signs in texts of different genres are defined as lingual coding of the genre and linguоcultural codes are treated as the repeated combination of the main referent fields of the texts. The following thematic groups have been singled out: 1) Presidential Appa- ratus activities in the field of home policy issues; 2) Presidential Apparatus activities in the field of foreign policy issues; 3) Presidential Apparatus activities in the field of military issues; 4) Presidential Apparatus activities in the field of terrorism issues. Linguocultural codes have been discovered for all thematic groups of memoranda under study, namely: 1) for memoranda dealing with organizational maintenance of the Presidential Apparatus activities in the field of home policy issues: ADMINISTRATION → SOCIAL GROUP; 2) in the field of foreign policy issues: POLITICS → EAST EUROPE; 3) for memoranda in the field of military issues: FIGHT →WEAPON; 4) for memoranda in the field of fighting terrorism issues: CRIME → PEACE. Verbal means used by the President to implement the discovered codes in his memoranda issued in 2016 have been analyzed.

Authors and Affiliations

Yu. I. Denysiuk

Keywords

presidential discourse presidential memorandum Barack Obama content analysis linguocultural code genre referent field.

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