The Pragmatics of Bullying in Selected Political Speeches of Donald Trump
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It is suggested that bullying refers to an interpersonal interaction which is marked by an aggressive behaviour carried out by one party against another. It is characterized by imbalance of power between the persons concerned. Bullying is ubiquitous in political arena where political leaders and candidates frequently resort to utilizing different strategies of bullying in order to attack their rivals and create a positive image for themselves which enables them to achieve their goals. Pragmatically, this issue has not been given its due attention. Thus, this study constitutes a try at bridging this gap in the literature via answering the questions below: What are the functions of bullying produced in the data under study? What are the types of bullying resorted to by Donald Trump? What are the pragmatic structure of bullying produced in the data under scrutiny? And what are the pragmatic strategies utilized by Donald Trump to bully his victims?
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