LINGUISTIC PROFILE OF THE LYING POLITICIAN
Keywords:
political discourse, linguistic profile, deceiver, markers of deception, Linguistic Inquiry and Word CountAbstract
The article attempts to define a linguistic profile of Donald Trump through his use of deceptive language on the basis of studying general linguistic and cognitive aspects of deception in the U.S. political discourse. The speaker‟s manipulative impact is discussed within the framework of analyzing his three speeches made in 2017. One of the most well-known tools for assessing deception is Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count – LIWC (Pennebaker et al. 2010). This computerized method is particularly useful in studying implicit tendencies of the speaker‟s discourse. Based on the previous research, the author focuses on the positive correlation between the use of function words, such as pronouns and deictic expressions, exclusive words, verbs of “motion” with the degree of probability of providing false information. The current study found that among linguistic units – possible predictors of deception were low cognitive complexity indices marked by decreased number of prepositions, long words, lower mean sentence length.
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