Images in President Trump’s 2025 Inaugural Speech

The present study analyses the speech delivered by President Trump on 20 January 2025 as his Inaugural Address. The discussion briefly addresses the features of linguistic worldview as well as the significance of metaphors in language. The text is scrutinised to present President Trump’s figurative language use. Such an approach attempts to identify recurrent imagery which reflects the worldview represented by the speaker. The conducted analysis aims at showing the observed salient aspects of metaphorical language use and those images that are repeatedly represented in the speech delivered during inauguration. The analysis identifies recurrent imagery and metaphorical patterns.

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Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
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2025-12-31
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https://doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2025.49.4.95-105
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Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
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Images in President Trump’s 2025 Inaugural Speech

Agnieszka Uberman
Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
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Images in President Trump’s 2025 Inaugural Speech

Agnieszka Uberman
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Abstract

The present study analyses the speech delivered by President Trump on 20 January 2025 as his Inaugural Address. The discussion briefly addresses the features of linguistic worldview as well as the significance of metaphors in language. The text is scrutinised to present President Trump’s figurative language use. Such an approach attempts to identify recurrent imagery which reflects the worldview represented by the speaker. The conducted analysis aims at showing the observed salient aspects of metaphorical language use and those images that are repeatedly represented in the speech delivered during inauguration. The analysis identifies recurrent imagery and metaphorical patterns.

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and LiteratureVol. 49(4)
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