LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF DECEPTIVE UTTERANCES IN DEFENSIVE DISCOURSE (BASED ON POLITICAL INTERVIEW WITH DONALD TRUMP)
Abstract
The article deals with the issue of self-deception in self-defensive political discourse. The study is based on the discourse and psycholinguistic analysis of two excerpts of the interviews with president-elect Donald Trump. The author focuses on the issue that the quality of self-deceptive speech, as D. Shapiro (1996) proposes, is that it comes off as self-directed rather than listener-directed as the politician addresses himself through the listener. In the present study, 2 interviews of with President-elect Donald Trump were analysed. In each interview, the politician had been asked a question about his personal knowing V. Putin. The results of the study of the political interviews with Donald Trump indicated that his speech can be classified as self-deceptive and it has some distinctive features as compared to the speeches where the purpose is to deceive others. There was consistent evidence that defensive speech had more words that are classified as cognitive mechanism words (such as think, know), more exclusive words (such as but, except). Defensive speech was wordier, used more negation words (no, never, not), and repeated the same words. Therefore, our data prove and similar to the research results obtained by other linguists and psycholinguists (Glick & Schober 2011). Closer examination of the interviews provides hints of the speaker’s attempts to protect their self-concept by offering reasons, justifications, and mitigations for his answers.
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