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Abstract
This study examines some of the pragma-syntactic and lexico-semantic manipulative devices in the 2016 U.S. presidential debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The two candidates’ aim behind using these different devices is to shape their audiences’ minds and gain a huge public following. The pragma-syntactic devices included in this study are person deixis, modality, and passive constructions. The three lexico-semantic manipulative devices discussed in the current study are conceptual metaphors, equivocations, and emotive language. The study shows how the use of the different pragma-syntactic and lexico-semantic manipulative devices helps in creating the image of the two candidates’ political persona. The study concludes that Donald Trump employed the different manipulative devices more than his opponent. It also indicates that while the different forms of person deixis are the most dominant manipulative device employed by the two candidates in the three debates under analysis, passive forms are the least commonly used device. The study also shows that the different categories of conceptual metaphors help in both making the abstract ideas clearer and creating the image of the two candidates’ political persona. The study clarifies the important role played by the emotive language in evoking the audiences’ emotions and feelings. The study also concludes that manipulation can easily find its way through the skillful use of the four categories of equivocations (sender, receiver, context, and content) as well as the three deontic purposes of modality: possibility, predictability, and obligation.