scholarly journals Martin Luther King Jr’s Delivery Style in Political Context: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Mutar Sabeeh Naser ◽  
Dr. Haider Hussein Katea ◽  
Majid Dakhil Hammadi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Persuasive Strategies ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Delivery Style ◽  
Martin Luther King

The effect(s) of delivery style may be in the form of punctuation and accentuation of speech, or they may be of subtler nature like adding emotion and force to utterance(s). This article then, investigates the position of paralinguistic factors: pace of delivery, pitch, intensity and pause pattern in King Martin Luther’s speech “Have a Dream” in political context. These factors carry attitude, psychological condition and emotional state of the speaker to the audience and affect their attitudes and emotions. These factors have been called the factors of delivery style because they can be used only in spoken language. These factors are the physical properties of speech and thus they are observable. These factors, thenwill be analyzed and studied with the help of van Dijk Model of CDA to answer To what extent the ideology of Martin Luther King Jr is reflected through the paralinguistic choices “I Have Dream”. In terms of the findings, the analysis found that persuasion is not the result of the use of the persuasive strategies in words and syntax alone as delivery style also plays an important role in persuasion. Pace of delivery along with pitch intensity and pause pattern are the main components of political speech delivery style for persuasive end. Moreover, the delivery style adds certain effect to other rhetorical strategies. Martin Luther King Jr. is a master of speech delivery style as he makes the best persuasive use of pace, pause, pitch and intensity in his speech.

scholarly journals Social Power: The Gap Between Majority and Minority Groups in Martin Luther King Jr.’S Speeches

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
Sylvia Christy Hendarto
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Majority Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
Martin Luther King

This study examines the social power between majority and minority group as represented in Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches. It investigates social power further into types of social power used, and how the gap between majority group and minority group is reflected in the speeches. Critical discourse analysis with socio cognitive approach was applied. The data were taken from three speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.: “I Have a Dream”, “Our God is Marching On”, and “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”. The result revealed that there were several types of social power appeared in the speeches. The finding on the gap between majority and minority group is reflected in their social status and roles in society.

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Tropes in Donald Trump’s First Speech to the UN

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1224-1236
Author(s):  
Mahdi Derakhshani ◽  
Shatha Naiyf Qaiwer ◽  
Bahram Kazemian ◽  
Shafigeh Mohammadian
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Esl Students ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
Text Talk ◽  
Language And Politics ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes ◽  
Underlying Trend

Language and politics go hand in hand and learning and comprehending political genre is to learn a language created for codifying, extending and transmitting political discourse in any text/talk. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of Fairclough’s CDA and Rhetoric, the current study aims at investigating Donald Trump’s First Speech, from the point of frequency and functions of some rhetorical strategies (Parallelism, Anaphora and the Power of Three, Antithesis and Expletive, etc.), Nominalization, Passivization, We-groups and Modality as well as Lexical and Textual Analysis, presented to the UN delivered on Sep. 19, 2017. Specifically, the study seeks to determine: (1) how President Trump succeeded in conveying his notions and assumptions to his intended audience, and in convincing and negotiating, (2) how he attempted to explicitly and implicitly pass his attitudes on his targets, and (3) how those orientations, intended notions and assumptions were seamlessly presented to his addressees in discoursal and lexico-grammatical levels; (4) and finally in this underlying trend how he achieved his own ends. The results of the study hope to enhance reading comprehension and writing in academic registers for EFL/ESL students.

scholarly journals President Benigno C. Aquino’s Inaugural Address: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Romel R. Costales
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Persuasive Strategies ◽  
Inaugural Speech

This paper looked into the persuasive strategies of President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III’s public speaking and the hidden ideology that was present in his inaugural speech. Norman Fairclough’s (1995) assumptions in critical discourse analysis that ideologies can be found in texts, that such ideologies can be impossibly separated from texts and that “texts are open to diverse interpretations” was the basis of the study.  President Aquino’s persuasive strategies were shown through the evaluation of the ideological and persuasive components of his inaugural speech.

Totalitarian Newspeak

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-83
Author(s):  
Petar Vodenicharov
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Intensive Production ◽  
The Press ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Low Education

Using the method of the critical discourse analysis and the insights of George Orwell „1984“ the author aims at analysing the propaganda mechanisms (production distribution and perception) of the totalitarian press in the 1950-s. The socio-political context of the press and the new relations between orality and literacy because of the domination of the new elite (mainly of village origin and with low education) have been outlined. The text analysis discovers the duality of the themes, the centralized and passive sources of the texts, new genres and the new imagery explained by some psychoanalytical concepts. The structure of the newspeak changed considerably with logoside and intensive production of neologisms, especially abbreviations, abundance of euphemisms and doublethinks which aim at closing the thought in vicious circles.

scholarly journals Political Discourses of Trust: Stance-taking Acts in the Thai PM’s Weekly TV Addresses

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Melada Sudajit-apa
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Epistemic Stance ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Linguistic Hegemony ◽  
Modal Verb

This study aims to investigate the Thai PM Gen Prayuth Chan-o-cha’s use of stance expressions to construe trust, comprising attitudinal stance, epistemic stance and modality, in his weekly addresses broadcast on national television from March to December, 2017. The linguistic investigation incorporating Critical Discourse Analysis and trust frameworks shows that the three main aspects of trust are pursued. Integrity is however predominantly constructed through the use of a modal verb kʰᴐ̌ː ‘would like’ and an attitudinal verb jà:k ‘want’. Interestingly, a relatively small number of stance markers are found to project competency and benevolence. The results have led to the conclusion that the PM’s trust-building strategies mainly involve the construal of integrity by asserting his moral values linked with national reform, reconciliation, and advancement. These characteristics of linguistic hegemony via the construction of trust-building are expected to raise more sociopolitical awareness in the Thai political context.

scholarly journals Ideology, (Mis)perceptions and (Re)construction of Political Identities: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Imran Khan’s Political Speeches

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 205-210
Author(s):  
Aisha Rauf ◽  
Farhat Sajjad ◽  
Mehwish Malghani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Multiple Strategies ◽  
Persuasive Strategies ◽  
Political Speeches

This study examines the persuasive strategies of Imran Khan's political discourse. It also highlights the covert ideological practices as they are embedded in his political speeches. The analysis is based on the theoretical perspective of Fairclough and Van Dijk. This study analyses the linguistic elements and contextual facets to find hidden ideologies. The findings suggest Khan use of multiple strategies to get the political power, and promote his ideology by urging the urban youth and less-privileged part of society to play a role. Moreover linguistic analysis prove Khan's claim to be (un)conventional as he frequently addresses and acknowledges women support for political activism.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI AKSI 212 DI KORAN SINDO DAN MEDIA INDONESIA (Representation of 212 Action in Sindo and Media Indonesia Newspaper)

Kandai ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Yusep Ahmadi F ◽  
Reka Yuda Mahardika
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Text Interpretation ◽  
Positive Meaning ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government

Makalah ini merupakan hasil penelitian analisis wacana kritis terhadap pemberitaan yang berkait wacana Aksi 212 di media Koran Sindo dan Media Indonesia. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui representasi Aksi 212 di kedua media tersebut. Metode yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan teori AWK Fairclough. Hasil  analisis teks menunjukkan Koran Sindo telah merepresentasikan Aksi 212 ke dalam makna dan citra yang positif. Sementara itu, Media Indonesia dalam merepresentasikan Aksi 212 dibawah dominasi representasi Joko Widodo sebagai presiden yang mendapatkan apresiasi dari berbagai kalangan atas kehadirannya di Aksi 212. Pada tataran interpretasi teks Koran Sindo lebih berpihak kepada Aksi 212 dibanding Media Indonesia. Hal itu sangat terlihat dari judul berita yang disiarkan. Koran Sindo memberikan judul “Aksi Supermassa, Superdamai” sedangkan koran Media Indonesia berjudul  “Presiden Banjir Pujian Datangi Peserta Aksi”. Pada tataran eksplanasi dapat disimpulkan representasi tersebut sejalan dengan konteks sosiokultural-politik yang melatarbelakangi dua media tersebut. Koran Sindo yang dipimpin Hary Tanoesudibjo dikenal dekat dengan Islam, hal itu sebagai upaya meraih dukungan muslim untuk bisnis media dan partai Perindo. Sementara itu, Media Indonesia yang tidak terlepas dari sosiopolitik Surya Paloh adalah pendukung pemerintah termasuk pendukung gubernur Ahok yang diduga (dikatakan diduga karena pada saat itu Ahok belum terbukti secara hukum menistakan agama Islam) menistakan agama Islam. (This paper is the result of critical discourse analysis research on news related to the discourse of  212 Action in Sindo and Media Indonesia newspapers. The purpose of this study  is to find out the representation of 212 Action in both media. The method used is qualitative with the Fairclough AWK theory. The results of the text analysis show that Koran Sindo has represented  212 Action in a positive meaning and image. Meanwhile, Media Indonesia represents  212 Action under the domination of Joko Widodo's representation as president who gets appreciation from various circles for his presence in  212 Action. At the level of text interpretation, Sindo newspaper is more in favor of  212 Action than Media Indonesia. This is very evident from the title of the news broadcast: the Sindo newspaper gave the title "Supermassa Action, Superdamai" while the Media Indonesia newspaper entitled "The President Praised for  Visiting Participants in Action". At the level of explanation, it can be concluded that the representation is in line with the socio-cultural-political context underlying the two media. The Sindo newspaper, led by Hary Tanoesudibjo, is known to be close to Islam, as an effort to gain Muslim support for the media business and the Perindo party. Meanwhile, Media Indonesia, which is inseparable from the sociopolitics of Surya Paloh, is a supporter of the government, including supporters of the Ahok, governor who is suspected of defaming Islam.)

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