Language inevitably constitutes a valuable tool in political discourse, as it is a crucial element in gaining the public support necessary to achieve any political end in democratic systems. Political discourse may express group ideologies and other beliefs, especially in collective forms of text and talk such as party programs. It is also characterized by the way it combines various concepts, and how certain concepts are attributed a central role. But many forms of political discourse are produced by individual speakers, and the ways they `personalize' the group beliefs underlie the more particular properties of political discourse [6, p. 17-18]. That is, between social beliefs and discourse we need a cognitive interface that represents personal beliefs, opinions or experiences.
CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SELF AND OTHER IN THE POLITICAL SPEECHES OF PRESIDENTS PETRO POROSHENKO AND BARACK OBAMA
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