Language peculiarities of representative speech acts in speeches of Barak Obama (in the focus of "power" concept representation)
In this article the author represents the results of the research of usage of the term “authority” in representative speech acts in public speeches of Barak Obama. The analysis of political discourse from the point of view of pragmatic approach allows to disclose the mechanisms of speech manipulation typical of political discourse which turns out to be a relevant issue of modern political linguistics. The author offers a classification of representative speech acts according to illocutive power and comes up with four types of representatives in Barak Obama’s speech - “president’s viewpoint on a particular matter”, “informing the audience”, “facts assertion” and “critics/evaluation”. The analysis of linguistic means typical of every type in connection to its pragmatic purpose is also represented in this article. It is also noted that the declaration of democratic values is one of the basic traits of representative speech acts in Barak Obama’s speech as the notion of power in American political discourse is strongly linked to democracy and prosperity of American society.