A SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE DISCOURSES OF FEMALE AND MALE PARLAMENTARIAN CANDIDATES IN EARLY GENEREL ELECTION OF TURKEY ON NOVEMBER 1., 2015

Abstract

Politic is a wide and complicated field, and it has its own treasure. Politicians, addressing every field and every citizen, have to have extensive knowledge and at the same time they need to express it with political language. The language used by politician should be understandable by citizens. Anyway, the main aim of the politician is to be able to express him/herself to the citizens. This paper aims to study the election speeches in terms of linguistical aspects, done by women and men politicians before the Early Election. In the first part, corporate section reveals the details of the topic starting from the definition of political language. The implementation part of the study contains the analysis of election’s speech done by women and men from different ideological views; comparison of the nominees in terms of the way of using language, the agenda topics they have; and finally, the findings will be assessed in terms of language of women and men.

Keywords

• Sociolinguistics
• Political Language
• Women’s Language
• Language of Men