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US versus THEM: a corpus-driven analysis of president Obama’s and president Trump’s speech discourses
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[eng] This research work focuses on the language used by the two most recent Presidents of the US, namely Barack Obama and Donald Trump, through six relevant speeches produced in their first term on the job. To carry out this corpus-driven analysis, I use several virtual applications which return a series of results that guide me in the process of study construction. Ultimately, I examine their most frequently used words, nouns, qualitative adjectives that collocate with those nouns, and, finally, the usage of personal pronouns so as to compare their discursive strategies. The results of this study show that Obama’s speeches are dictated by formality and indirectness, reflected on his lack of subjective adjectives and usage of neutral personal pronouns, which blur the “us versus them” distinction; whereas Trump employs a hyperbolic and exaggerated use of evaluative adjectives, alongside the informal practice of personal pronouns in order to manipulate and persuade his audience.
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Treballs Finals del Grau d'Estudis Anglesos, Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs:
2019-2020, Tutora: Natàlia Judith Laso
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FINGER BOU, Rebeca. US versus THEM: a corpus-driven analysis of president Obama’s and president Trump’s speech discourses. [consulta: 7 de desembre de 2025]. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/171178]