Abstract:
The aim of the study is to identify the naming units creating images of
enemies in the inaugural speeches of American presidents.
The object of the study is the inaugural speeches of American presidents of
the 20th and 21st centuries.
The subject of this study is the verbal images of enemies in the speeches of
American presidents of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Methods of the study include: induction and deduction; definitional and
componential analysis; contextual analysis; theory of conceptual metaphor.
Material of the study is based on 27 inaugurals by US presidents, from the
address by President Wilson in 1913 to the speech of incumbent President Trump
in 2017.
