A pragmatic study of impoliteness in Donald Trump’s racist speeches

الملخص EN

The present study is primarily concerned with pragmatically investigating the impoliteness strategies used by the previous American president Donald Trump in his racist speeches.

Consequently, this study aims at : (1) Investigating the types of racism used by Donald Trump in his racist speeches, (2) Shedding light on the topics that are Finding out the always referred to by Donald Trump in his racist speeches, (3) employed by Donald Trump to issue his racist speeches, and impoliteness strategies (4) Revealing the most prevailing impoliteness strategies utilized by Donald Trump in his racist speeches.

In accordance with these aims, it is hypothesized that (1) Racism is used explicitly more than implicitly by Donald Trump in his racist speeches.

(2) Migration and language are the topics that are always referred to by Donald Trump in his racist speeches.

(3) Bald–on record and positive politeness strategies are used by Donald Trump in his racist speeches, and (4) Positive impoliteness prevails in Donald Trump’s racist speeches.

To achieve the aims of the study, the following procedures are followed: (1) Presenting a theoretical background about impoliteness, (2) Choosing some speeches delivered by Donald Trump at different occasions and analyzing them depending on Culpeper’s (1996) model of impoliteness, and (3) Coming up with certain conclusions.