http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14346/1861 2026-04-28T13:31:59Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14346/1863 Linguistic and rhetorical features of Donald Trump’s communication style. Rhetoric and Communications, Issue 57. Mammadov, Azad; Isgandarli, Maryam The article analysis Donald Trump’s communication style and political dis- course through methodology including methods from linguistics and rhetoric. The re- search focus is in lexical and syntactic repetitions, elliptical constructions and word order changes used by Donald Trump in his political speeches sending strong signals to his real and potential voters. The assumption is Donald Trump’s communication style has the features of grandiosity, informality and dynamism. These three concepts have strong association with populist rhetoric, which plays a very important role in his political discourse, the first two concepts imply two conflicting trends: a desire to be above all and at the same time a desire to be closer to the audience. The article studies the way how, why, when and where Donald Trump uses the repetitions of words, phrases and sentences, ellipsis and word order changes as the linguistic verbalizations of grandiosity, informality and dynamism in his political discourse. 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14346/1862 Pragmatic function of ellipsis in political Interview. Found Lingwistyczne tom 11, № 2 Mammadov, Azad; Agamaliyeva, Jamila Any interview reflects the general trend of economy and efficiency in terms of language use. It implies that language is a crucial tool at the disposal of the participants of interview. In this connection, political interview draws a special interest as it serves as an excellent platform that demonstrates how a balance between explicitness and implicitness could be found for successful social interaction. Since success is critical for both participants of political interview, they are eager to achieve it using all available linguistic devices. From this perspective, the role of ellipsis appears to be crucial because of its unique ability to provide minimum explicit linguistic devices and at the same time to deliver necessary message relying on extra-linguistic and linguistic contexts. Thus, the paper aims to explore the pragmatic functions of various elliptical constructions extensively used in political interview. The conversation analysis of these constructions suggests that the instances of their usages are motivated by both linguistic and extra-linguistic contexts. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z