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Accusing is an intentional act that can be achieved in certain attitudes. The accuser thinks that the accused has done something wrong. The speech act of accusing has been tackled in law and in police officer's false accusation, but it has not been tackled sociopragmatically. So, the present study deals with accusing sociopragmatically in American political interviews. The study aims at: Identifying the sociopragmatic structure of accusing, finding out the speech acts that employed by the accuser and which one is the most frequent, pinpointing the most frequently sociolinguistic variables used in American Political Interviews, specifying the types of accusing and which one is more common in Trump's and Hillary's political interviews, exploring the most frequent purpose of accusing in Trump's and Hillary's political interviews. To achieve the aims of the study, it is hypothesized that: Accusing is a process contains three stages, initiating stage, developing stage and completing stage, the speech act of statement is the most frequent in Trump's and Hillary's political interviews, Position is highly utilized by Trump while gender is highly used by Hillary as a sociolinguistic variable, direct accusing is the common type of accusing used by Trump while indirect accusing the common type used by Hillary, attack is the most frequent purpose of accusing in Trump's and Hillary's political interviews.
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