scholarly journals Moderating Opposition and Shaping Political Settlement in the US Presidential Speech on the Military Action in Syria: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-112
Author(s):  
Yasser Gomaa ◽  
Mervat Albufalasa
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Military Action ◽  
Syrian Crisis ◽  
Presidential Speech ◽  
The Us ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
The Military

This study aims to analyze Barack Obama’s speech on Syria delivered on September 10, 2013 in response to the chemical attacks launched against Damascus on August 23, 2013. The study employs Fairclough’s (2001) framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to bring out the ideological polarization latent in the language of Obama by investigating the linguistic devices used to stir emotions in listeners to adopt certain stands or take certain action. The study posits three questions to investigate how Obama’s language has been used to display the nature of the U.S. political discourse during the Syrian crisis, explore the ideological component enshrined in Obama’s language, and cast light on the typical discourse strategies used by Obama to appeal to the international community to lead a coalition against Syrian regime. The analysis of Obama’s speech reveals the ideological opposition to implicating Americans and their allies solely in toppling Al-Assad’s regime under the pretext of being preoccupied with quelling violence and establishing peace in the world. The analysis also demonstrates that Obama has availed himself of many linguistic devices such as lexical manipulation, metaphorical expressions, personal pronouns, parallelism, and rhetorical questions to rally support for the US military action in Syria.

Dehumanizing to Demonizing: Critical Discourse Analysis of George Bush’s Speeches for Exploring the Influence of Dehumanizing Metaphor in Political Discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 154-168
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
George Bush ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Sense Of Justice

To legitimize US invasion of Iraq, Bush fabricated fake intelligence reports, and depended solely on propaganda; he manipulated language in a well-calculated manner; most particularly, the metaphors chosen and devised for his speeches were such that convinced the US citizens about the legitimacy of the invasion, elicited financial support of the European allies and moral support of the majority of the world community. This research work used discourse analysis to study the metaphors that were used by George Bush in the speeches he made on 8 different occasions, and the theoretical framework used in it is the combination of critical discourse analysis CDA with postcolonial theory concept of orientalism.It utilized both qualitative and quantitative data collection tools.It found that most of the task was accomplished through the linguistic manipulation in the shape of metaphor used to dehumanize the enemy, which first made the US citizens feel as victims to the jealousy of rogue Muslim states for intending to completely annihilate them; then, it made appeal to their sense of justice, sense of security, and right to self-defense. By grouping the world citizens into Us and Them groups, the innocent, peace-loving and the war-mongers, the angels and the devils, and then by placing themselves and the rest of the world among the first group and placing the powerfulMuslims states among the second group, the US exploited the feelings and thoughts of all. Despite the UN and the rest of the world having come to know the sheer lies of the US now, the US still has managed to flog a dead horse and blind-fold majority of the world through this linguistic manipulation in the form of using dehumanizing metaphors

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of Pakistani Newspapers Editorials in Coronavirus Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-153
Author(s):  
Nayab Waqas Khan ◽  
Mehak Muneer ◽  
Huma Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
Second Wave

This research explores Pakistani newspapers Editorials’ lexical, morphological, and social aspects of the coronavirus Pandemic in Pakistan under the light of the Critical Discourse Analysis angle. The focal idea is to discover the etymological decision and rhetorical questions utilized in a revealing pandemic, and how did the columnists shape readers' minds and thoughts through their words. The CDA has been used as a theoretical framework for analyzing the data. Information for this examination includes 15 Editorial randomly gathered from 100 newspapers in Pakistan. Results demonstrated the exploitation of terminologies has been shown inconvenience, fear of contagious disease, death, fear of touching, and outbreak among people. The bogus information was additionally found in newspapers. Contradiction among newspapers was found while presenting data. This social change brings ultimately a linguistic change in the world. The English language is the language of overcoming gaps among nations, but this time it had correspondingly ushered in a new vocabulary to the general populace. For instance, new vocabulary, acronyms, synonyms, compounding, etc. Social change is parallel to linguistic change, and it is a paramount theme of lexicography. The local newspapers advocated a massive outbreak of the coronavirus and expected a second wave of this pandemic that was frustrating for the educational sector on top. The newspaper editors manipulate thoughts through forceful lexis usage to influence the thought, and opinions of Pakistani people.

scholarly journals Quest for Body and Voice: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Shamsie's Broken Verses

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (II) ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
Mashhood Anjum ◽  
Iftikhar Baig ◽  
Abdul Hameed
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Paradigm Change ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

In contemporary and postmodern literary discourses, feminism has introduced a paradigm change in the sex debates. The plan of feminist critical discourse analysis is to explore different discourses from a feminist viewpoint. The planned study conforms to this field of feminist discourse that will attempt to analyze Kamila Shamsie's selected work, Broken Verses. She, being a famous feminist, has produced discourses in which structural and thematic samples absorb sex debates. Her feminist tendency has established clear expression in all the aspects of her works: body, voice and characterization. The current study shows how she has used feminist discourse strategies in conventionality with her feminist literary position. This research extensively improves the perceptive of Kamila Shamsie's work and pictures how the feministic arrangement and feminist critical discourse analysis have been inventively infused in her famous works.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI KORBAN KEKERASAN DALAM TEKS BERITA DARING TRIBUN TIMUR: ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS [The Representation Victims of Violence in Tribun Timur Online News Text: Critical Discourse Analysis]

TOTOBUANG ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Yusdianti Tenriawali
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Women Victims ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Identification Strategy

This study discusses the representation victims of violence in the online news text in Tribun Timur online news. The purpose of this study is to identify the form of discourse strategies used journalists in positioning victims of violence in the news text on Makassar.tribunnews.com site. This research is a qualitative research using descriptive method. The approach used in this research is critical discourse analysis approach. Sources of data in this study is a text of violence news in the online news site Tribun Timur with data in the form of news text that is considered to represent victims of violence. Data collection in this research using documentation technique and record technique. The results showed that the form of language news is a word containing inclusion discourse strategy in the form of strategy of nomination and identification. In the news texts, victims of male violence tend to be featured with a nomination strategy that displays the victim for what it is. However, women victims of violence seem to be shown with an identification strategy that displays the victim as a powerless party. Male victims in the online news text tend to be more protected than female victims. This may indicate that Tribun Timur journalists still tend to embrace the ideology of patriarchy.Penelitian ini membahas tentang representasi korban kekerasan dalam teks berita daring Tribun Timur. Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengidentifikasi bentuk strategi wacana yang digunakan wartawan dalam memosisikan korban kekerasan dalam teks berita pada situs Makassar.tribunnews.com. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan analisis wacana kritis. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah teks berita kekerasan dalam situs berita daring Tribun Timur dengan data berupa teks berita yang dianggap merepresentasikan korban kekerasan. Pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan teknik dokumentasi dan teknik catat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa bentuk kebahasaan berita adalah kata yang mengandung strategi wacana inklusi berupa strategi wacana nominasi dan identifikasi. Pada teks berita, korban kekerasan laki-laki cenderung ditampilkan dengan strategi nominasi yang menampilkan korban dengan apa adanya. Namun untuk korban kekerasan perempuan terlihat cenderung ditampilkan dengan strategi identifikasi yang menampilkan korban sebagai pihak yang tidak berdaya. Korban laki-laki dalam teks berita daring Tribun Timur cenderung lebih dilindungi dibandingkan korban perempuan. Hal tersebut dapat mengindikasikan bahwa wartawan Tribun Timur masih cenderung menganut ideologi patriarki.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Use of Metaphor in Online Car Advertisements

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Rita Hartati ◽  
Ebrahim Panah ◽  
Hafizan Matsom
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Us ◽  
Descriptive Approach

The objectives of the current study are threefold: a) to investigate what types of metaphors are used in Arab and Western car advertisements and why they use them, b) to explore how metaphors are used in Arab and Western car advertisements, and c) to explore how cultural attributes are used along with metaphors in Arab and Western car advertisements. The study adopted a descriptive approach through content analysis using three models: cultural (Hofstede, 2005), metaphorical (Lankoff & Johnson, 1980), and contrastive discourse analysis (Farclough's, 2001), approaches to analyze the data. The study sample comprised 30 car advertisements from Holland, France, Germany, Italy, the US, and Arab countries, each with five advertisements published online in 2016. The findings of the study show that car advertisements frequently use metaphorical strategies. In addition, the study revealed differences between Arab and Western advertisements in terms of the employment of cultural attributes. Finally, the study also indicated that even within the Western context, there is a different use of metaphorical strategies with subtle differences.

scholarly journals THE REPRESENTATION VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE IN TRIBUN TIMUR ONLINE NEWS TEXT: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andi Yusdianti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Women Violence ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Identification Strategy

This study discussed about the representation victims of violence in the online news text of Tribun Timur online news. The purpose of this study was identifing the form of discourse strategies which was used by journalists to positioned the victims of violence in the news text on Makassar.tribunnews.com site. This research wasqualitative research by using descriptive method. this research used critical discourse analysis approach. Sources of the data in this study was taken from the text of violence news- that represented the victims of violence- which had written in the online news site Tribun Timur. The data collection in this research were using documentation and record technique. The results showed that the form of news language was the word that contained inclusive discourse strategy such asstrategy of nomination and identification. In the news texts, the nomination strategy appeared in male violance victims as natural while identification strategy appeared in women violence victims as weakness one.e. Male victims,in the online news text,tended to be more protected than female . It had indicated that Tribun Timur journalists tended to adhere the ideology of patriarchy.

scholarly journals Neo-Orientalist Framing of the 2011 and 2013 Egyptian Uprisings: A Case Study of The New York Times and The Washington Post

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamta Gelashvili
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Us

This thesis critically examines the US media framing of the Egyptian Uprisings in 2011 and 2013 to examine whether the coverage was relatively value-neutral or had a value-laden (Neo-Orientalist) perspective. The thesis aims to examine whether the Neo-Orientalist tendency among the Western societies to view religion as the key driving force behind political processesis manifest in the US media as well, or whether the two newspapers try to represent the abovementioned political and economic processes and grievances. To this end, the thesis looks at the articles published in The New York Times and The Washington Post during and after two major events: Mubarak‟s resignation in 2011 and Morsi‟s removal in 2013. A combination of quantitative (content analysis) and qualitative (critical discourse analysis) research demonstrates that news articles and editorials about the 2011 and 2013 uprisings include Neo-Orientalist frames. These articles consider liberal democracy as a universal normative model and contrast it with Islam, portrayed as a fundamentally different, homogeneous and antidemocratic phenomenon linked with instability and violence and singlehandedly influencing democratization process. Compared to 2011, Neo-Orientalist frames become more frequent in 2013; if in 2011, most units adhere to Fukuyama‟s view that Egypt would join the teleological march to liberal democracy, in 2013, the trend reverses and most units, like Huntington, exclude any possibility of democratization. The textual practices of naming, sourcing, presupposition, fore- and backgrounding, used to construct Neo-Orientalist frames, can be related to discursive practices, or the production of text, and larger social practices. As critical discourse analysis shows, the units show pro-Israeli bias and align with the US foreign policy priorities: both the general policy of liberal democracy promotion and the specific strategic interests in Egypt.

scholarly journals Rhetorical Strategy and Linguistics Features in E-Petition Through Change.org

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Nurrahma Restia Fatkhiyati ◽  
Suharno Suharno
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
Emotional Appeals ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Logical Connectors

The research explored what types and how rhetorical strategy correlated with the linguistics features in e-petitions through Change.org entitled “KPK dalam Bahaya”. The data were e-petitions collected through Change.org. The analysis was holistically descriptive and included in qualitative research. The approach used critical discourse analysis by Fairclough that was using Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework and the strategy of rhetoric by Aristotle. Those theories helped the researcher to find out how the rhetorical strategy and the linguistics features created persuasive meaning. The findings indicate that euphemism, metaphor, connectives, logical connectors, rhetorical questions, and modality support the rhetoric strategy constructing the meaning beyond the words. Through one of the rhetoric strategies, pathos persuades the readers to agree to the argument and sign the e-petitions. Due to the emotional appeals, all of these language instruments help the rhetoric to provoke the readers significantly.

scholarly journals Exploring the discourse of National Islam and Foreign Islam in the Australian press: A critical discourse analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-317
Author(s):  
Muhammad Junaid Ghauri ◽  
Amrat Haq ◽  
Riffat Alam
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Us ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Research Endeavour

Research conducted in some European countries and in the US has evidenced that there is a considerable difference in the media coverage of the National/Internal and Foreign/External Islam. Wherein, the latter is viewed and portrayed as a ‘greater threat’ to the mainstream society. This research endeavour is an effort to explore the predominant themes associated with the Foreign/External Islam in the editorials of the two selected Australian newspapers during January 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017. The researcher has employed Tuen A. van Dijk’s (1998) ideological square and lexicalization strategies from the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) paradigm to examine the editorials of The Age and The Australian. The research findings are evident that in the coverage of the Foreign Islam both the selected newspapers have associated ‘conflict’, ‘violence’ and ‘collectivism’ with Islam and Muslims, however The Australian highlighted ‘women underrepresentation’ also. While covering the National Islam, The Age highlighted the ‘victimization’ and ‘prejudice’ to Muslims in Australia and stressed on the need of ‘understanding’, ‘harmony’ and ‘cohesion’. However, in The Australian the National Islam also received the same treatment as did the Foreign Islam in terms of themes.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document