scholarly journals BUILDING COMIC IMAGINATION THROUGH POLITICAL PARODY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON DONALD TRUMP IN THE PRESIDENT SHOW AND SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’S THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Isna Ardyani Fataya
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Saturday Night ◽  
Political Comedy ◽  
Humor Theory ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Saturday Night Live ◽  
Political Decisions ◽  
Presidential Debate

The number of Americans watching political comedy shows has significantly growing recent years. The views increase as TV channels spread their programs into social media, such as YouTube. The comic and funny aspects depicted in the political parody can be in the forms of imitation, impersonation, and reflection of one’s character, expression, and appearance. This paper aims to investigate American TV programs, The President Show and Saturday Night Live’s The Presidential Debate, by employing humor theory seen from Van Dijk’s critical discourse analysis. The dialogues used by the impersonators are analyzed to figure out the elements of funny features, comedy, and parody. Hence, the purpose of this study is to answer whether or not the discourse mechanism can build humor in The President Show and Saturday Night Live’s The Presidential Debate. The data apply ten Comedy Central’s YouTube videos and four Saturday Night Live’s YouTube videos. The data comprises of political and power discourse. The analysis concludes that both shows utilize some aggressive strategies to criticize Trump’s character, such as metaphor to represent policies, contrast to illustrate positive self-representation, and hyperbole to demonstrate racism. While Saturday Night Live applies Hillary Clinton to contrast Trump’s image. Saturday Night Live contrast Trump by applying strategies such as disclaimer, implication, incongruity, aggressive, and illustration to criticize his personalities and his controversial political decisions.

scholarly journals GE Big Boys Appliances: Towards a Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the SNL Fake Commercial

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Karina Clemente-Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Saturday Night Live

Nowadays, comedy shows like Saturday Night Live (SNL) have become popular and entertain many people around the world. For this study, a fake commercial for GE Big Boys Appliances, aired on YouTube in 2018 is analyzed to explore how discourse is used to represent gender roles and stereotypes. To conduct this multimodal discourse analysis, some elements of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) proposed by Halliday (1978), some notions of critical discourse analysis, and some features of the Machin’s (2010) visual semiotic framework are employed. The findings portray that the sketch shows a change concerning gender roles through time, but it still promotes the transmission of some classical gender stereotypes. Therefore, it is valuable to study comedy sketches to understand how traditional gender roles and stereotypes are still transmitted in social media.

Science and technology in the international politics of sustainable development: an analysis of the discursive representation in the Rio+20 outcomes

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Lopes Araújo ◽  
Raiza Gomes Fraga ◽  
Viviane De Melo Resende
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Decisions

The critical discourse analysis (CDA) applied to the text “The Future We Want,” produced by the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (aka Rio+20), sought to identify the discourses used in depicting the subject of science and technology in the geopolitics of sustainable development. CDA’s theoretical-methodological apparatus reveals a belief that technological innovations will be able to offer solutions for the development issues and guide political decisions toward sustainability.

scholarly journals Science and technology in the international politics of sustainable development

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Lopes Araújo ◽  
Raiza Gomes Fraga ◽  
Viviane De Melo Resende
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Decisions

The critical discourse analysis (CDA) applied to the text “The Future We Want,” produced by the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (aka Rio+20), sought to identify the discourses used in depicting the subject of science and technology in the geopolitics of sustainable development. CDA’s theoretical-methodological apparatus reveals a belief that technological innovations will be able to offer solutions for the development issues and guide political decisions toward sustainability.

scholarly journals Iraq in the American Presidential Debate Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 260
Author(s):  
Huda H. Khalil ◽  
Nawal F. Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Presidential Debates ◽  
Presidential Debate

The present paper aims at identifying both the American Republican and Democratic presidential nominees’ (Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s) ideologies towards Iraq in the only three American presidential debates held before the presidential elections of 2016. The presidential nominees participated in the three debates have been the same (Clinton and Trump). These debates have synchronized with one of the toughest periods in which Iraq was fighting ISIS. To arrive at these ideologies, the three presidential debates discourse has been critically analyzed depending on Van Dijk’s socio- cognitive approach. The linguistic tools selected as means to manifest the ideologies are global topics, local semantics and speech acts. The analysis has shown that the three American presidential debates represent a rich ideology discourse and that both Clinton and Trump share certain ideologies towards Iraq but differ in the majority of these ideologies. Both presidential nominees have taken advantage of the issue of Iraq in the debates to achieve certain electoral benefits. 

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