Contemporary American political discourse: paremias in Barack Obama's rhetoric
«Proverbial speech» strategy is not new to American political discourse. The present article investigates the cognitive side of the way standard (usual) and modified (occasional) paremias function in the rhetoric of the 44 US President Barack Obama
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cognitive assumptions (mindset), occasional modification, political discourse, paremias (proverbs and sayings), когнитивные установки., окказиональная модификация, политический дискурс, паремии (пословицы и поговорки);Authors
| Name | Organization | |
| Konstantinova Anna A. | Kuban State University of Technology (Krasnodar) |
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