Donald Trump's Inaugural Address

Introduction
The first analysis strives to explain the different speech acts used by Trump in his ‘Inaugural Address and how these affect the listeners. I will be analyzing commisives, assertives and expresives speech acts from John R. Searle’s classification and finally exploring felicity conditions.

The second analysis aspires to determine what narrative structure Edgar A. Poe has chosen in his short story ‘The tell tale heart’ in terms of plot and narration technique and discover what Poe wishes to accomplish with the choices of narrative structure.

The Inaugural Address
Donald Trump’s ‘Inauguration speech’ was published January 20’Th 2017 where he delivered it as his first speech as President of USA. Trump uses this speech to try and

“One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left behind.” This statement that Trump makes states the situation of the American work market. The statement can either be false or true and must in this context be believed to be true as it is the president speaking. The use of such utterances can therefore be used to tell the listeners how bad the conditions have previously been and then how the speaker attends to make them great, building up himself.
The last speech act within the classifications I will address is the expressives, which are utterances that express how the speaker feels about a situation, wherein this speech it is shown by thanking “Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you.” This utterance by Trump is used to start of his speech and to reveal his attitude and emotion in the situation of having been elected the next president of

Furthermore, Trump uses assertives to state how bad things have been and then promising that ‘we’ will make America great again, creating a feeling of unity. The linguistic view on a piece of text and especially utterances which I have been analyzing throughout this essay helps us to understand how utterances can be seen as an act. For example when promising something the speaker is not only uttering something but is actively making a commitment that he will have to fulfill later