GENDERED BASED VERBAL EXCLUSION IN AMERICAN POLITICAL DEBATES

Abstract

Verbal exclusion encompasses a variety of linguistic acts that strengthen social inequalities and power relations. It represents acts such as name-calling, stereotyping, insult speech, and linguistic discrimination to assert dominance or maintain social hierarchies. The current study is concerned with the identification and analysis of Gendered based verbal exclusion in American political debates on Socio-pragmatic level. The study aims to determine the function played by gender in verbal exclusion, the uses of verbal exclusion, which maxim of Grice is most violated in employing verbal exclusion to create implicature, and what type of verbal exclusion is widely used by American politicians. The exclusion is curried out on data consists of four texts of American debates during being president from 2010 to 2024. The research finds that men politicians exclude women politicians because of their gender. Verbal exclusion is used mainly to perform the function of identity construction. The maxim of quality is mainly flouted in constructing verbal exclusion. Lexical exclusion is mainly used by American politicians.