A Critical Stylistic Study of National Self-Glorification in American Politicians Tweets

Abstract

Language is the primary means by which people comprehend the outside environment. It functions as an instrument for power and communication. Politicians use language in political communication to alter public opinion, attitudes, and behavior toward politics, as well as to alter national and state policy in general. Various forms of national self-glorification can be used frequently to execute good self-presentation, particularly in parliamentary statements on immigration: praise or positive allusions to one's own nation, its values, customs, and history. Thus, racist and nationalist ideas can coexist. Political leaders always try to glorify their countries in order to highlight and show the audience their interests and concerns in raising the status of their countries. American politicians are the ones who employ this strategy the most, using various devices. This study attempts to investigate this strategy within the field of critical stylistic analysis. The study adopts the Jeffries (2010) as an analytical model. The study concludes that both American political leaders Trump and Biden employ the strategies of hypothesizing, contrasting, presenting action, presenting time, presenting state, assuming, and describing with different percentages in order to achieve their personal and political purposes.