POLITICAL SPEECH PECULIARITIES IN INAUGURAL ADDRESS

Abstract

The article outlines the political speech peculiarities in inaugural address. Political speech aims at persuading the listener by giving arguments, their beliefs on an emotional level, or even manipulating by means of the political speech. The analysis of the political speech gives an opportunity to study the knowledge, concepts, interpretations and behavioral rules of the speaker. The purpose of our research is to study the socio-cultural and psycholinguistic aspects of an inaugural discourse and classify the main appeal concepts on the example of the inaugural address of the 26th American President of Theodore Roosevelt. The analysis showed that the highest percentage in Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural address includes the national-cultural, social and political. However, the components of independence (nezalezhnist’), democracy (demokratiia), equality (rivnist’) in the above inaugural address find their minimal use, although it is important for the political speech of American politicians. Since other concepts have hardly been reflected in Theodore Roosevelt’s speech, we consider them temporal. It is found that for each development period of the US society, certain concepts are inherent in the national consciousness and expressed in words-symbols, which explain the socio-cultural stratum of a political speech.