Аннотация:The tragedy of 9/11 was a brutal awakening for America and the world at large, a day that will forever live with Americans who experienced it. George W. Bush in his rhetoric paid much attention to the image of enemy that was analyzed in this work through frames and slots. The results have shown that for President saw enemy as the embodiment of evil in the world that can impose its wicked, immoral beliefs and put an end to the peaceful life if it is not rooted out on time. Therefore America sees its mission in saving all nations from enemies and liberating them from tyranny and despotism of Islamic leaders. President sticks to a distinct us-them opposition drawing a thick line between his country that is a beacon of democracy, freedom , high standards of morality, and enemy-states that are quite the opposite.
We found out that the concept ENEMY is represented in Bush's speeches by means of certain characteristics such as the region where enemies have their camps and keep weapons, belonging to certain groups and organizations, functions that enemies perform and goals they pursue, also enemies are vividly shown as the carriers of particular qualities like cruelty, malice, inhumanity and others that turn the enemy into an evil and immoral creature that America faced and tried to destroy.
This paper is going to have a continuation. Further research will focus on new representations of the concept ENEMY in American presidnetial rhetoric and juxtapose these to the frames and slots of the concept FRIEND.