Impoliteness in the 2016 US Presidential Final Debate
This article is intended to analyze impoliteness strategies in the 2016 US presidential final television debate.The objectives of this article are to reveal impoliteness strategies employed by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton,the similarities and differences,and the pragmatic functions of these strategies.The transcript of their debate was sampled as the database for this study and then analyzed and discussed with Culpepers(1996)theory as framework.The findings of the study show that(1)Impoliteness strategies serve as an important component in the confrontational context of presidential final debate,and they are intentionally,even systematically,posed and intensified in the pattern of attack-respond-repost;(2)Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have different aggressive face-threatening styles.Donald Trump tends to employ negative impoliteness strategies to challenge Hillary Clintons negative face wants while Hillary Clinton tends to employ positive impoliteness strategies to attack Donald Trumps positive self-image;(3)These impoliteness strategies have much to do with getting power and venting negative feelings.
presidential final debate impoliteness strategies pragmatic function
Han Miaomiao
Foreign Language School,Linyi University,Linyi,China
国际会议
吉林
英文
326-334
2018-06-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）