‘Mr. President, discourse matters: a contrastive analysis of Donald Trump and Barack Obama’s discourse
- Authors: Casañ-Pitarch R.1
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- Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
- Issue: Vol 9, No 1 (2018)
- Pages: 173-185
- Section: POLITICAL LINGUISTICS. SCIENCE 21.0
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2313-2299/article/view/341910
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2018-9-1-173-185
- ID: 341910
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Ricardo Casañ-Pitarch
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Email: ricapi@upv.es
(PhD in Applied Linguistics) holds a MA in the English language for international trade (Business) and a BA in English Philology. He is currently an Assistant Professor at polytechnic university of Valencia (Spain). His main research interests within the field of applied linguistics are genre analysis and language acquisition. His most recent studies focus on discourse analysis and language acquisition with serious videogames Camí de Vera, s/n, 46022 València
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