This study investigates Barack Obama’s attitudes towards Republicans and Democrats by analyzing a corpus of 249 Presidential weekly addresses. Analysis shows that Obama’s attitudes towards the Republicans are characterized by a negative judgment of propriety, creating a negative image of the Republican Party, whereas when Republicans and Democrats are mentioned together, his attitudes are characterized by his hopes for and commendations on bipartisan collaboration. An analytical model based on the attitude schema is proposed to explicate the strategies for encoding attitudes. It is found that negative attitudes are always expressed implicitly by recounting events that elicit the attitudes (i.e. behaviors of the Republicans) and performing speech acts that are motivated by the attitudes (i.e. urging the Republicans to stop the wrong behaviors). The patterns of attitudes reflect bipartisan conflict and cooperation on the one hand, and constitute an important strategy to battle against the opposition party and build coalitions on the other.

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语言、态度和政党政治

本研究通过分析 249 篇总统每周讲话的语料库来调查巴拉克奥巴马对共和党人和民主党人的态度。分析表明，奥巴马对共和党的态度，主要是对得体的否定判断，造成了共和党的负面形象，而当共和党和民主党一起被提及时，他的态度则是对两党合作的希望和赞扬。提出了一种基于态度模式的分析模型来解释对态度进行编码的策略。研究发现，消极态度总是通过叙述引发态度的事件（即共和党人的行为）和以态度为动机的言语行为（即敦促共和党人停止错误行为）而隐含地表达出来。