AMERICA Concept as a Fragment of the Concept Sphere of Barack Obama’s Linguistic Personality
https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2021-3-86-105
Abstract
The concept of AMERICA is considered as a part of the concept sphere of Barack Obama’s linguistic personality. Special attention is paid to the structure of the AMERICA concept in B. Obama’s speeches and the nominative features of this phenomenon. The material for the study was the public policy speeches delivered by Obama at different stages of his career. Methods of conceptual, semantic and discourse analysis are used to identify the means of objectification of this concept in the speeches of the studied linguistic personality and to construct its nominative field. The AMERICA concept is proven to be one of the central components in the Barack Obama concept sphere throughout his political career. It is shown that Barack Obama’s AMERICA concept has a complex structure with a branched system of features. It is noted that it includes associations actualized by the AMERICA concept, which is part of the national picture of the world. It is revealed that the structure of this concept also includes a set of individual-author’s associations reflecting the world picture of the linguistic personality of the 44th President of the United States. The structure of the AMERICA concept with the allocation of the core, near and far periphery is described.
About the Author
O. B. Nesterova
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olesya B. Nesterova - Senior Lecturer.
Moscow.
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Nesterova O.B. AMERICA Concept as a Fragment of the Concept Sphere of Barack Obama’s Linguistic Personality. Nauchnyi dialog. 2021;(3):86-105. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2021-3-86-105
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