Pragmatics of Eponyms in Political Discourse (On the Material of the Speeches of Politicians)
Journal: Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
Year: 2021

Eponyms are complicated, unique constructs named after people and places used in special-professional areas of science. One of those specific areas is politics/political discourse. The main purpose of this article is to investigate the political discourse of politicians (Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin) in the period from 2012 to 2017 to reveal the pragmatic potential and skillful use of eponyms used by the latter when they ran for presidency as a means of influence. Results show that eponyms are b