Trump’s Ideology towards Arabs as Exemplified in Some Selected Speeches (2011-2017): An Appraisal Study

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English Department - Faculty of Arts - Helwan University

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This paper mainly focuses on employing the Appraisal model in studying Trump’s ideology in some selected political speeches and TV interviews. The paper tackles these speeches in their political, cultural, and global contexts, with a focus on the lexical resources and\or expressions uttered. The study explores Trump’s ideologies through Martin and White’s Appraisal model (2005) that has been generated from the Systematic Functional Linguistic (SFL) of Halliday and his colleagues (Halliday, 1994). This theory elicits how assessments are perceived through attitudes inherited in the political discourse aspects. Additionally, Van Dijk’s Ideological square (1998) is consulted and used as a linguistic tool in analyzing the texts in question. The results of the study reveal that Trump constructs an ideological stance to represent reality to his audience as a persuasive strategy to accomplish his underlying political goals. He did not change his attitudinal positions from 2011 through 2017 to accomplish his intended ideology that is based on discrimination attitudinally and intersubjectively.

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