scholarly journals Discursive Strategies and Speech Acts in Political Discourse of Najib and Modi

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Renugah Ramanathan ◽  
Shamala Paramasivam ◽  
Tan Bee Hoon
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
The Political ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Language Awareness ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Political Decisionmaking

Election campaigns are constantly regarded as a persuasive campaign to convince the nation to vote for the leader of a country. Being said such, this study investigates the discourse of twitter of two political premiers in Asia: Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Tun Razak (henceforth, Najib) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi (henceforth, Modi), in the aspects of discursive strategies and speech acts during election campaigns. The discourse of Najib and Modi are selected due to their active participation on Twitter throughout election campaigns. The data were collected over 3 months throughout the national elections of both the countries, which were from February to April 2013 in Malaysia and January to March 2014 in India. This qualitative study employs Wodak’s discursive strategies to analyze the lexical choices utilized in the election tweets and Searle’s speech act taxonomy to analyze the speech acts used. The presence of two major speech acts was highlighted during the elections: commissives and directives. These two speech acts collaborated under the hood of discursive strategies of predication and perspectivation that empowered Najib and Modi to establish a strong contact with citizens while creating a sense of integrity and oneness. This study is significant as it creates political and language awareness to citizens by denoting how political figures establish power through mutual consent with citizens using Twitter. Furthermore, this study enlightens citizens on how the 140-character tool can influence the political decisionmaking of a community.

scholarly journals Lexis in Political Ideas on Twitter

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 342
Author(s):  
Renugah Ramanathan ◽  
Tan Bee Hoon ◽  
Shamala Paramasivam
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Political ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
The Social

Ideologies in political discourse have been keen research topics as they provide various views of an issue or event. The prominent aspect of ideology is that it attempts to bridge the political activism to the social world that reflects the authenticity of political figures. This study aims to compare the ideological notions in the political tweets of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak (henceforth, Najib) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi (henceforth, Modi) during the election campaigns. The discourse between both the political premiers are compared in relation to their active participation on Twitter in Asia. Data were collected over a period of 3 months during the election campaigns of both the countries which were from February to April 2013 in Malaysia and January to March 2014 in India. The study follows the qualitative research design by employing Fairclough’s three dimensional model in analyzing the lexical choices and the formation of ideas. The presence of various ideologies in the tweets portray the consensual power of the political leaders as the citizens accepts the former’s principles, ideologies and moral values. Hence, this study is significant because the study increases political awareness among citizens and provides insights on how language is employed by both leaders from different political coalition. Besides, this study produces knowledge that helps society to understand how 140 character can be a powerful tool in disseminating ideas during national elections and making election a success.   

On reading God the author

2001 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
MEROLD WESTPHAL
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Speech ◽  
Political Implications

The first part of the essay explore's three features of Wolterstorff's account of God as a performer of speech acts: (1) the claim that God literally speaks, suggesting that this claim needs something like a Thomistic theory of analogy as an alternative to univocity and mere metaphor; (2) the claim that speaking is not reducible to revealing; and (3) the political implications of these claims, especially in relation to Habermasian theory. The second part focuses on the theory of double discourse, which seeks to make sense of the notion that God speaks to us through the human voices of prophets, apostles, and especially of Scripture, and seeks to show that a fuller account of the speech act by which God deputizes or appropriates human speech is needed. The final section suggests that Ricoeur and Derrida are not the threat to his theory that Wolterstorff takes them to be and that their emphasis on the text, rather than the author, makes sense in contexts where we have only the text to consult.

scholarly journals SPEECH ACTS OF U.K. PRIME MINISTER BORISH JOHNSON’S SPEECH

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 609
Author(s):  
Risma Ratri Rahayu ◽  
Ula Nisa El Fauziah
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Illocutionary Act ◽  
Speech Act Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Abstract  This research was to investigate speech acts of Borish Jonshon’s speech concern in the illocutionary act and the use of speech act analysis by Hymes (2014). The speech was held in Prime Minister’s office and Borish Johnson has used a national TV address at 8.30 p.m. The data of this research taken from the script and speech video of the U.K. Prime Minister named Borish Johnson on 23 March 2020 which talked about Covid-19. The research applied descriptive qualitative as a method and hold in Yule’s speech act theory. Based on the analysis, the researcher was found and analyze 222 utterances. Those are consist of, 36% representative, 33% declarative, 16% directive, 9% expressive, and 6% commissive. As the result was representative is the highest use of the illocutionary aspect found in this research. It can be seen that Borish Johnson hoped that his audiences would follow what he said to reduce the coronavirus disease - 19. Keywords:        Pragmatics, Speech Act, Covid-19

scholarly journals Speech Act Analysis of Whatsapp Statuses Used by Jordanians

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Luqman Rababah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
English Language ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Expressive Speech ◽  
The Third ◽  
Speech Act Analysis ◽  
Fourth Position

This qualitative study aims at investigating the WhatsApp statuses as used by Jordanians. It also investigates the types of speech acts used in these statuses. For this purpose, the study has collected and analyzed 200 statuses. The population of the study included all English language students of Jadadra University, where the sample of the study included (50) students, representing 20 % of the whole population. The results showed that data were classified into six main topics; religious, social, political, personal, romantic and national. Additionally, five themes emerged from the data, namely, expressive, directive, assertive, commissive and declaration. Expressive speech acts represent (37 %) of the total speech acts types analyzed. The directive took the second place, representing (25%) of the total status update analyzed. The assertive and commisive fall into the third and fourth position representing (23%) and (15%) respectively. The declarative type has the no occurrences representing (0 %) of the analyzed data. Some of the recommendations suggested are that further research needs to be conducted into the speech acts used by Jordanians on different social networking platforms.

A cross cultural apology episode of a diplomatic repair

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-96
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Mok ◽  
Mitsuhiro Tokunaga
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
History Of

Against the political backdrop of what was arguably the lowest point in the China-Japan relationship in modern times, China had called for Japan to take “concrete actions to face up with … its history of invasion”. In response, Japan’s then Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, issued a public apology at the Asian-African Summit on 22nd April 2005. His choice of words, “deep remorse” and “heartfelt apology”, did little to assuage the Chinese. What did these words really mean in the context of speech acts of apology? Was the apology considered to be an apology? How does this episode of apology fall into the current discussion of apology strategies? Was there lexical avoidance? Was there any discourse difference compared to previous apologies? This paper will attempt to answer these questions.

scholarly journals A Study of Students’ Speech Acts in Organizational Education and Regeneration Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
Harmita Sari ◽  
Puspa Sari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Student Speech ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Program Data ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This article aimed to describe, analyze, and explain the forms of speech acts of students after joining organizational education and regeneration program at Universitas Muhammadiyah Palopo. This research is a descriptive qualitative study that attempted to explain the speech acts that occur in the conversation. The subjects of this study were active students who had participated in the program. Data were taken from the results of observations, interviews, recording, and additional information in the field. The results of the research showed that the forms of the student speech act in the campus environment were (a) declarative, (b) imperative, and (c) interrogative.

scholarly journals Rechtspopulistische Rhetorik revisited am Beispiel der FPÖ-Wahlkämpfe in den Jahren 2015 und 2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-82
Author(s):  
Sabine Lehner
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Far Right ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Discursive Strategies

Right wing and far right parties have recently succeeded in many elections worldwide. The Austrian Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ), one of the most successful right-wing populist parties of Europe, has lately also enjoyed great popularity in regional and national elections. Norbert Hofer, the FPÖ-candidate, even made it to the run-offs of the presidential election in 2016. This paper draws on a discourse-analytical approach and investigates the discursive strategies implemented by the FPÖ during two election campaigns (the 2015 local elections in Vienna and the 2016 presidential elections). Based on various discursive events of both campaigns (speeches, posters, TV-discussions etc.), this contribution examines if recent right-wing populist rhetoric corresponds to well-known patterns or if there have been some shifts.

scholarly journals Analysis of Speech Acts During Speaking Classes at SMP PGRI 5 Denpasar

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luh Subagiasih
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Grand Theory ◽  
Main Instrument ◽  
Instrument Observation ◽  
Efl Learning

This study aimed at and analyzing the types of speech act and the functions of speech act during EFL learning in SMP PGRI 5 Denpasar. The study was designed in the form of descriptive qualitative study which involved an English teacher and eight grade students at SMP PGRI 5 Denpasar. The theory of Searle (1979) was used as the grand theory for analyzing the speech act types and Leech’s (1991) was used for the analyzing the function of the speech act. The data were obtained through observing, recording and note taking. The instrument used in this study were researcher (the main instrument), observation sheet, and video recording (the additional ones). The data were analyzed descriptively. The types of speech acts used in EFL learning were directives, representatives, commisisves, expressives, and declaratives category. In EFL learning mostly created speech acts for the competitive, collaborative, convivial, and conflictive function.

scholarly journals A Speech Act Analysis of the First Speech of Imran Khan as Prime Minister

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Tanveer Hussain ◽  
Deeba Shahwar ◽  
Abdul Basit
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

This paper aims to highlight the speech acts which have been working behind the first speech that has delivered by Imran Khan as Prime Minister of Pakistan at 26, July 2018. It is a political discourse that attracts the researcher's interest. The objective of this paper is to answer what type of speech acts have been used by Imran Khan, the overlapping of what speech acts occur in Imran Khan's speech and what direct and indirect speech acts have been used by Imran Khan. The findings revealed that his speech includes representative acts (27.083%), expressive acts (1.041%), declarative acts (7.291%), directive acts (25%), commissive acts (39.583%) out of the total 100% of data. This paper-based on both qualitative and quantitative analysis of discourse. The framework employed in this study is the Speech Act theory that has introduced by J.L Austin in 1962 and further developed by J.R Searle (1969).

Functional features of the phraseological unit there is no money, but you hold on

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Maria S. Gerasimchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
The Political ◽  
Wide Context ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Figure

The article describes the phraseological unit of money that is not enough, and it operates on the political Internet, electronic media and social networks. She has every reason to succeed in this matter. Based on contrast, due to the semantics of the union, the expression repeats the logic of the object of perception of the words of Dmitry Medvedev, the subject of phrase-making. Despite the fact that everyone knows the wide context and the situation in which the expression is pronounced, the phrase is attributed to the former prime minister and is sometimes quoted in quotation marks. The statistical analysis over the years, given in the article, shows that the winged expression is increasingly firmly entering our language. The grammatical form of phraseological sentence is presented as a source of semantic transformations. In the basis of the change in the meaning of phraseological units, according to the author, there is a change in speech acts laid down in the form of a wish. The article presents the prospects of studying options, transformations and a syntactic model of the phraseological unit and idiol of D. Medvedev as a political figure.

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