Naming and Describing Practices in Trump’s 20-Point Gaza Peace Plan: A Critical Stylistic Analysis

Abstract

The present paper examines the different naming and describing practices that represent the world of events and participants involved in Trump’s 20-Points Gaza peace plan announced on 29^th Sept. 2025 as an outstanding example of political speeches. The study explores how various naming choices construct meanings of agency and power encapsulated in the nouns, noun modifications, and nominalisations. To uncover these meanings, the study follows Jeffries’ (2010) textual conceptual function of naming and describing drawing on the centrality of the concept of textual meaning and its potential to suggest a rigours and objective analysis that conceptually present a portrayal of the world in a particular way using the resources of the linguistic system. Analysis reveals that noun and noun modification are major naming choices constructing the pattern of agency while nominalisation provides the basis for the pattern of power that prevails in the text under analysis. The findings demonstrate that the potential of textual meaning explains the conceptual uncovering of embedded ideologies in texts whether or not we agree with them. These findings also highlight the potential of critical stylistics as a discipline to provide the basis for a rigours and objective textual analysis. The study recommends that other critical stylistics tools are applied to this text, and others, to further test the potential of the textual level of meaning in uncovering ideological meaning.