Political neologisms in the American Press (based on the articles on B. Obama 's presidency)
Danielyan Hovhannes
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………2
2. CHAPTER I
General Notes on Political Neologisms……………………………………………..4
3. CHAPTER II Neologisms Connected with B. Obama 's Presidency……………………………...9
4. CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………….15
5. BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………………………………………………..17
1 Introduction The current graduation paper is devoted to the detailed study of the neologisms in the American press. The latter is observed via examining the cases of neologisms brought forward by B. Obama. In this paper an attempt was made to throw light upon many words and phrases that are used in modern American political lexicon, as well as to examine some political neologisms that help to cover the 2008 Presidental Election Campaign. The graduation paper consists of an introduction, two chapters, conclusion and bibliography. The introduction manifests the main topic of the research, the major phenomenon related to the investigation and to basic structure of the paper. In throws light upon the development of the political language which promotes the creation of neologisms. Chapter One analyzes the political language in general as well as the four main political styles that the political language is usually composed of. This chapter also reveals the types of neologisms and gives the notion of political
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