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Condemning in Biden’s Tweets: A Pragmatic Analysis

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Salh Mahdi Adai,Souad Hafed Mahdi

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This paper is mainly concerned with investigating the pragmatic perspective of condemning in Trump’s tweets. From a pragmatic point of view, condemning has not been received enough attention. Accordingly, this study is an attempt to analyze condemning pragmatically through the elected model. Thus, it aims finding out the types of condemning are used in the American political contexts, identifying the functions of condemning in the selected data, shedding light on how impoliteness strategies are used for achieving those functions of condemning, and uncovering the rhetorical devices used. According to the aims listed above, it is hypothesized that: directive, attitudinal and expressive types of condemning which are used in American political contexts, expressive and regulative are functions of condemning, the condemner utilizes the impoliteness strategies by attacking a person’s face positively, negatively, indirectly or sarcastically, and persuasion, repetition, symbol, simile, metaphor and dysphemism are rhetorical devices. The results of the analysis prove the first, second, third and fourth hypotheses.

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