This document discusses critical discourse analysis of President Obama's political discourse and speeches. It provides background on discourse, critical discourse analysis, and key concepts like ideology, power, language, and liberal discourse. It also examines Obama's 2009 inaugural address, noting his references to American values, history, and ancestors to invoke a sense of national strength from the country's heroic past. The analysis seeks to uncover hidden meanings and power relations in political texts and language.
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice. Scholars working in the tradition of CDA generally assume that (non-linguistic) social practice and linguistic practice constitute one another and focus on investigating how societal power relations are established and reinforced through language use
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice. Scholars working in the tradition of CDA generally assume that (non-linguistic) social practice and linguistic practice constitute one another and focus on investigating how societal power relations are established and reinforced through language use
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Introduction to discourse analysis
What is discourse?
What is discourse Analysis?
Paradigms in linguistics
Cohesion and Coherense
Types of written discourse
Types of spoken discourse
Text and discourse
Scope of discourse analysis
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Introduction to discourse analysis
What is discourse?
What is discourse Analysis?
Paradigms in linguistics
Cohesion and Coherense
Types of written discourse
Types of spoken discourse
Text and discourse
Scope of discourse analysis
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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. DISCOUR
SE
• 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”
8. WHAT'S CDA’S
OBJECTIVE?
what'sCDA’sobjectives?
• to perceivelanguageuseassocial practice.
• Theusersof languagedo not function inisolation,
but inasetof cultural,socialandpsychological
frameworks.CDAacceptsthissocialcontextand
studiestheconnectionsbetweentextualstructures
andtakesthissocialcontextinto accountand
exploresthelinksbetweentextualstructuresand
their function in interaction within the society
.
9. •
•
Language user do not function in
isolation
but in a set of ;
• Soci
al
Cultur
al
Psychologi
cal
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‘impliesshowingconnectionsandcauses
whicharehidden.
• Why it’simportantto exposethehidden things?
• sincetheyarenot evidentfor theindividuals
involved,and,becauseof this,theycannotbefought
against.
16. THREE LEVELS OF
DISCOURSE
• 1.firstly,socialconditionsof productionand
interpretation, i.e.thesocialfactors,whichcontributedor
lead to the originationof atext,and,atthesametime,
howthesamefactorseffectinterpretation.
• 2.Secondly
,theprocessof productionand interpretation,
i.e.inwhatwaythetextwasproducedandhowthis
effects interpretation.
• 3.Thirdly,thetext,being theproductof thefirst two
stages,commentedonabove.
17. THREE STAGES OF
CDA
Description stagewhichisconcerned
withtheformalpropertiesof thetext
Interpretation concernedwiththe
relationshipbetweentextandinteraction
Explanation concernedwiththe
relationshipbetweeninteractionandsocial
context
26. • Theliberalfreedom
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”.
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.