Political Ideologies of Selected Speeches of President Rodrigo Duterte: A Critical Discourse Analysis

On August 13th 2010, the MV Sun Sea ship carrying 492 Tamil asylum seekers arrived off of the coast of British Columbia. Immediately upon arrival the Tamil asylum seekers were detained for a prolonged period of time, subjected to intensified interrogation techniques, and unfairly questioned even when in possession of identifying documents. This paper examines how the government used political discourse to try and justify the unusually harsh detention of asylum seekers. Through a critical discourse analysis strategy, eight newspaper articles will be analyzed and the theories of securitization, discourse, and orientalism will be used to advance certain political ideologies. The political justifications of detention operate through the theme of the egocentric state, and the theme of categorizing and demonizing asylum seekers. The final theme discussed is the concept of victimization, which will offer an alternate perspective to this paper’s main focus on political discourse.

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Discursive strategies and ideologies in selected newspaper reports on the Nigerian-Cameroonian Bakassi peninsula border conflict

Communication and the Public ◽

10.1177/2057047317748500 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 151-168 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ebuka Elias Igwebuike

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

News Reporting ◽

Discursive Strategies ◽

News Reports ◽

Political Ideologies ◽

Conflict Situations ◽

Discourse Strategies ◽

Number Game

News reporting on conflict situations mainly manipulates discursive and representational strategies in portraying people, actions and events either negatively or positively based on certain prejudiced ideologies. This article examines salient discursive strategies deployed by Nigerian and Cameroonian newspapers to represent socio-political ideologies in their reports on the Bakassi Peninsula border conflict. Data comprise 127 instances of discourse strategies drawn from two Nigerian and two Cameroonian English-medium national newspapers published between August 2006 and August 2010. By integrating insights from van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis, findings reveal that both countries’ reports create polarity of positive in-group and negative out-group ideologies through seven discursive strategies which include slanted headlining, negative labelling, evidentiality, number game, hyperbolism, victimization and depersonalization. The strategies embody ideological prejudices of positive self- and negative other-representations which are rife in both nations’ news reports on the disputed Peninsula.

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Controversies in Political Ideologies: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Speeches of Indian and Pakistani Premiers on Pulwama Incident

Register Journal ◽

10.18326/rgt.v14i1.43-64 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 43-64

Author(s):

Muhammad Imran Shah ◽

Saeed Ahmad Ahmad ◽

Ali Danishs

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Political ◽

Depth Information ◽

Political Leaders ◽

Modal Verbs ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Political Ideologies

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is considered an effective approach to explore the hidden realities in a text. The current research analyzes the speeches of the leaders of the two states on the incident of Pulwama attack on 14th February 2019 in the region of Indian occupied Kashmir to control the minds of the audience and formulate their ideologies to achieve their political benefits through power abuse. The data has been taken from the speeches delivered by the both political leaders, the Premier of Pakistan Imran Khan and the Premier of India, Narendra Modi on Pulwama Attack. Both qualitative and quantitative research approaches have been followed to investigate the texts. For Quantitative data, AntConc 3.5.8 has been utilized for the frequencies and concordance of the important words to be discussed. Observation has been utilized to gain in-depth information to describe qualitatively. The results show that some specific linguistic choices regarding some specific vocabulary, pronouns, and modal verbs have been used ideologically by the premiers to manipulate the language of their speeches. The study will be important for researchers who want to investigate the discourse developed by the political leaders’ speeches on same issue . Keywords: Discourse, pronoun, modality corpus, intertextuality

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Marketization of universities in China: A critical discourse analysis of the university president’s message

Discourse & Communication ◽

10.1177/1750481319856203 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 539-561 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Peter Teo ◽

Songsha Ren

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

University Presidents ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

National Interests ◽

Political Ideologies ◽

Micro Level ◽

The University

This article focuses on the global phenomenon of the marketization of higher education and how it has shaped the discourses of China’s top universities. By analyzing the university presidents’ messages published in the websites of 36 top-ranked universities in China, the aim is to ascertain the extent to which this institutionalized genre imbricates a marketizing role with other ideological imperatives. Informed by the theoretical principles of Critical Discourse Analysis and adopting a genre analysis methodological approach, we first examined the macro-level rhetorical structure followed by a micro-level analysis of the discursive strategies used in the presidents’ messages. The findings reveal a dynamic interweaving of three distinct discursive strands – bureaucratic, conversational and advertising – constructed in and around the move structure of the presidents’ messages. This interdiscursive analysis reveals competing imperatives and contestations that reflect the dual role of the presidents’ messages to project a globalized, international outlook while maintaining an allegiance to political ideologies and national interests that top-ranked universities in China have to simultaneously negotiate.

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Intertextuality as a Catalyst for Ideology Formation: A Study of Media Discourse Dynamics

International Journal of English Linguistics ◽

10.5539/ijel.v9n3p249 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 249

Author(s):

Najma Qayyum

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Sampling Method ◽

Research Tool ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Media Discourse ◽

Main Research ◽

Daily Newspapers ◽

Political Ideologies ◽

The Social

This article investigates how intertextuality in media discourse works as an ideological catalyst. It explores how discursivity and intertextuality in media discourse permeate all levels of society and shape the social and political ideologies of the readers. Media discourse producers are both politicians and reporters. The article investigates how they use language as a manipulating tool. The article also discovers how intertextuality is created in media discourse by clipping specific linguistic elements of different discourses and then forging them together for effect. Four Pakistani English daily newspapers have been analyzed which were selected through non-probability sampling method. The study is qualitative in nature and spreads over six months that is from March 2013 to August 2013. The tenets of critical discourse analysis (CDA) were employed as the main research tool. For understanding the linguistic aspects, Fairclough’s (1995) idea of texts and genres was used and for interpreting the contextual use of language, Halliday’s ideas of field, tenor and mode were incorporated. The analyses revealed how politicians as well as reporters instill tacit ideas into the minds of their addressees which blur and downplay their thinking pattern and entice them to think and behave the way these discourse producers want them to.

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The Political Discourse Behind Canada’s Unusually Harsh Detention Practices: The MV Sun Sea Case

10.32920/ryerson.14662512.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Shaina Singh

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

Political Discourse ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Political ◽

Political Ideologies ◽

Analysis Strategy ◽

The Government

On August 13th 2010, the MV Sun Sea ship carrying 492 Tamil asylum seekers arrived off of the coast of British Columbia. Immediately upon arrival the Tamil asylum seekers were detained for a prolonged period of time, subjected to intensified interrogation techniques, and unfairly questioned even when in possession of identifying documents. This paper examines how the government used political discourse to try and justify the unusually harsh detention of asylum seekers. Through a critical discourse analysis strategy, eight newspaper articles will be analyzed and the theories of securitization, discourse, and orientalism will be used to advance certain political ideologies. The political justifications of detention operate through the theme of the egocentric state, and the theme of categorizing and demonizing asylum seekers. The final theme discussed is the concept of victimization, which will offer an alternate perspective to this paper’s main focus on political discourse.

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Ideologies and Censorship in the Discourse of Two Opinion Columns: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics ◽

10.32591/coas.ojsl.0402.03061g ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 61-74

Author(s):

Jhon Alejandro Marín González

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Ethical Dilemma ◽

Freedom Of Speech ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Political Polarization ◽

The Political ◽

Right Wing ◽

Left Wing ◽

Political Ideologies

This article examines two opinion columns titled “Dilema Ético” (Ethical Dilemma) and “A Margarita” (To Margarita) from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. The relevance of the analysis of these columns is that they were written within a context of social crisis in Colombia where the political polarization has increased over the last years. The study intends to identify and analyze expressions used in the discourse of two columnists that represent opposite political ideologies and how this can enact constraints of freedom of speech. The analysis is conducted through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The findings show that the columnist identified with right-wing ideologies imposed herself on the columnist aligned with left-wing ideologies, thus restrict her freedom of speech.

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