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Abstract
The linguistic examination of public statements made by politicians is a rich area for research. This is due to the fact that the lexical and morpho-syntactic choices of political figures, as well as their choice of media to deliver them are not made randomly, but are made as a result of each candidate’s ideology, political agenda and contemporary mass media tools. Therefore, a close examination of these lexical and morpho-syntactic features, the frequency of their occurrences, and the features of the media used would provide stylistic clues to their significance and intended effects. This research aims to examine public statements posted by U.S. President Donald Trump during his campaigning race for presidency on Twitter. It identifies the specific recurrent linguistic features and patterns in Trump‘s tweets in order to identify their intended language functions. The analytical method used is Jakobson’s Language Functions to identify the purpose of specific linguistic features, and a quantitative method using AntConc software is employed to identify the frequency of their occurrences, in order to examine whether the forms and functions are correlated to the style of a Populist leader or not.