EMPHATIC LINGUISTIC MEANS IN INAUGURAL SPEECHES OF D. TRUMP AND J. BIDEN
The article focuses on lexical and grammatical means of expressing emphasis in inaugural speeches of American presidents. The notion of emphasis is discussed, the most common linguistic means of adding emphasis are categorized and described. Based on the analysis of the inaugural speeches of D. Trump and J. Biden, lexical, morphological and syntactical means of expressing emphasis are identified and described, and their quantitative analysis is carried out. It is determined that in D. Trump’s speech lexical emphatic means prevail, whereas in J. Biden’s speech syntactical emphatic means are more prominent. Overall, D. Trump’s speech appears to be more expressive than Biden’s as the mean expressiveness quotient of D. Trump’s speech is almost twice as large as that of Biden’s.