id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_akbqla7epfb47ggwiib2egcsve S.Yu. Pavlina USING CULTURE-SPECIFIC ELEMENTS IN AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES 2020 3 .pdf application/pdf 2167 286 64 USING CULTURE-SPECIFIC ELEMENTS IN AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES The article explores the linguistic component of American presidential debates. The former incorporates political and social realia as well as those connected with cultural norms Idioms used in the presidential debates reflect American culture codes. Keywords: presidential debates, culture-specific components, realia, idioms. represent some aspects of a particular political and social contexts which are closely associated with a specific culture. singled out in debate texts pertain to the political realm, social sphere as well as cultural norms and practices. Apart from realia culture-specific linguistic units embedded in presidential debates rhetoric include typically The analysis of presidential debates rhetoric shows that culture specific units employed by American politicians in preelectoral discourse encompass realia and idioms. 9. Donald Trump & Joe Biden 1st Presidential Debate Transcript 2020 [Электронный ресурс]. https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-joe-biden-1st-presidential-debate-transcript-2020 (дата https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-debate-quotes-factbox/trump-vs-biden-quotes-from-the-final-presidential-debateidUSKBN278065 (дата обращения: 20.11.2020) 9. Donald Trump & Joe Biden 1st Presidential Debate Transcript 2020 [Electronic resource]. https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-joe-biden-1st-presidential-debate-transcript-2020 (accessed:20.11.2020) ./cache/work_akbqla7epfb47ggwiib2egcsve.pdf ./txt/work_akbqla7epfb47ggwiib2egcsve.txt