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2025 - Volume 8 - Number 1

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s Speech at the Save America Rally

Yesenia Rubit Ramirez-Tapia * ORCID: 0009-0000-1578-968X
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO

Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics, 2025, 8(1), 1-10 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0801.01001r
Received: 3 June 2025 ▪ Revised: 28 July 2025 ▪ Accepted: 5 August 2025

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
This article provides an analysis of Donald Trump’s Save America Rally speech in 2021, employing a critical discourse approach. This research employs Critical Discourse Analysis to examine Trump’s “Save America” Rally speech, analyzing language on both the micro and macro levels. Through Critical Discourse Analysis, using Van Dijk’s framework, this analysis examines the discourse strategies, society, and cognition of the given speech. The results of this analysis highlight the use of pronouns, synonyms/antonyms, and repetition during Trump’s Save America Rally speech. Using pronouns like ‘us’ and ‘them’ highlights ideological divides. Synonyms and antonyms are a discourse strategy to create coherence and reinforce the speech. Repetition is constantly used to clarify terms during the Save America speech. By analyzing this topic, the research aims to shed light on the broader implications of the current political discourse, particularly now that Donald Trump has been elected the 45th President of the United States.

KEY WORDS: Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Donald Trump, political speech, language, ideology.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Yesenia Rubit Ramirez-Tapia, University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO.

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