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2. • This paper examines the persuasive strategies of President Obama's public
speaking as well as the covert ideology of the same, enshrined in his
inaugural address.
• Our analysis is grounded in Norman Fairclough's assumptions in critical
discourse analysis, claiming that "ideologies reside in texts" that "it is not
possible to 'read off‘ ideologies from texts" and that "texts are open to
diverse interpretations" (Fairclough:1995).
3. WHAT IS POLITICS?
• Politics is a struggle for power in order to
put certain political, economic and social
ideas into practice.
4. WHAT’S LANGUAGE ROLE IN POLITIC?
• language plays a crucial role, for every political
action is prepared, accompanied, influenced and
played by language.
6. DISCOURSE
• Its meaning range from linguistics, through sociology,
philosophy and other disciplines.
• we apply the definition of discourse, based on van Dijk’s, and
his general concept of discourse as text in context, seen as
“data that is liable for empiric analysis” , with focus being put on
discourse as action and process. From this it follows that
“discourse” is a wider term than “text”
7. CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is
obviously not a homogenous model, nor
a school or a paradigm, but at most a
shared perspective on doing linguistics,
semiotic or discourse analysis. (van Dijk
1993b: 131)
8. WHAT'S CDA’S OBJECTIVE?
what's CDA’s objectives?
• to perceive language use as social practice.
• The users of language do not function in isolation,
but in a set of cultural, social and psychological
frameworks. CDA accepts this social context and
studies the connections between textual structures
and takes this social context into account and
explores the links between textual structures and
their function in interaction within the society.
9. • Language user do not function in isolation
• but in a set of ;
• Social
Cultural
Psychological
11. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AIMS TO…
• systematically explore often opaque relationships of causality and
determination between:
• (a) discursive practice, events and texts,
• (b) wider social and cultural structures, relations and processes
• to investigate how such practices, events and texts arise out of and are
ideologically shaped by relations of power and struggles over power;
• to explore how the opacity of these relationships between discourse
and society is itself a factor securing power and hegemony.
Why?????
12. Not only the language use is affected by its
groundedness within certain frame of
cultural or social practice, but also the use of
language influences and shapes the social
and cultural context it finds itself in.
So the relationship is bi-directional
13. • CDA recognises both directions, and in
particular it “[explores] the tension between
these two sides of language use, the socially
shaped and socially constitutive” (Ibid.: 134)
• Language is a constituent of the society on
various levels. A division proposed by
Fairclough (Ibid.: 134-136) is that of social
identity, social relations and systems of
knowledge and belief.
14. • The one element of CDA by which it is differentiated
from other forms of discourse; lies in its attribute of
‘critical’.
• What’s Critical?
• Critical‘ implies showing connections and causes
which are hidden.
• Why it’s important to expose the hidden things?
• since they are not evident for the individuals
involved, and, because of this, they cannot be fought
15. • What the followers of CDA try to achieve …
• Critical Discourse Analysts seek to reveal how
texts are constructed so that particular (and
Potentially indoctrinating) perspectives can be
expressed delicately and covertly; because they
are covert, they are elusive of direct challenge,
facilitating what Kress calls the “retreat into
mystification and impersonality”. (Batstone 1995:
198-199)
16. THREE LEVELS OF DISCOURSE
• 1. firstly, social conditions of production and
interpretation, i.e. the social factors, which contributed or
lead to the origination of a text, and, at the same time,
how the same factors effect interpretation.
• 2. Secondly, the process of production and interpretation,
i.e. in what way the text was produced and how this
effects interpretation.
• 3. Thirdly, the text, being the product of the first two
stages, commented on above.
17. THREE STAGES OF CDA
Description stage which is concerned
with the formal properties of the text
Interpretation concerned with the
relationship between text and interaction
Explanation concerned with the
relationship between interaction and social
context
18. CONCEPTUAL BASIS
• This paper attempts to link social practice and linguistic
practice, as well as micro and macro analysis of discourse
(Fairclough 1989: 97)
• At the same time, analytical part of this paper analyzes
the possible interrelatedness of textual properties and
power relations, which is also underpinned in Fairclough’s
conceptual work.
• Furthermore, this paper attempts to deconstruct covert
ideology which is ‘hidden’ in the text,
19. CDA
“Critical Discourse Analysis seeks to reveal how
texts are constructed so that particular (and
potentially indoctrinating) perspectives can be
expressed delicately and covertly; because they
are covert, they are elusive of direct challenge,
facilitating what Kress calls the ‘retreat into
mystification and impersonality’(1989: 57)”
(Batstone 1995: 198-199).
21. LIBERAL DISCOURSE
• The basic difference of liberal narrative
from that of the conservatives lies in
emphasizing the importance of
Enlightenment ideals over the religious
ones.
• The creation of the nation is not perceived
as the act of God but rather as based on
principles of humanity.
22. There are some examples;
• “America and every nation on earth is
called by God to seek justice and serve
the common good of humanity, not as a
special privilege, however, but as special
responsibility” (cited in Hunter 1991:
113).
23. • As you see in the example;
• Despite the conservative efforts to
monopolize the religious principle, the
God and religion are not completely
excluded from the liberal narrative
25. FREEDOM…
• Freedom is a principle the American
liberalism built on the classical
liberalism, where it meant individualism
and the notion of choice the individual
has that is not restrained by tradition
(Micklethwait & Wooldridge 2005: 343).
26. • The liberal freedom
is defined largely in terms of the social
and political rights of individuals as
“immunity from interference by others in
his life, either by state or church or by
other individuals”.
27. JUSTICE
Is “understood in terms of equality
and the end of oppression in the
social world – ‘fair play’.” (cited in
Hunter 1991: 114)
28. Some parts of Obama’s Speech…
• “mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors”
• “Forty-four Americans have now taken the
presidential oath”
• “faithful to the ideals of our forebearers, and true to
our founding documents”
• “So it has been. So it must be with this generation of
Americans.”
29. • “passed on from generation to generation”
• “Our journey has never been …”
• “Concord and Gettysburg ; Normandy and Khe Sahn” At seven
words, this
• passage is wonderfully brief, yet manages to span four wars:
Revolutionary War, Civil
• War, World War II, and Vietnam War, respectively.
• “Their memories are short.”
30. • The overall theme for this inauguration speech can be
summarised as “strength from their heroic past“, which
is manifested by examples from the American past and
urges the American people to go back to the good, old
American values. These mentioned and referred to
values are old and timeless – tolerance, curiosity,
loyalty and patriotism.
31. • Obama’s form of address can be perceived as more
inclusive, including all nationalities and ethnicities,
applying a more citizen-centered attitude.
32. “ Our economy is badly weakened”
• The possessive pronoun “our” indicates unity of the
people in the time of national peril.