American Political Discourse as Manifested in Hillary Clinton's Interviews: A Critical Approach

Abdel-Moety, Doha Mahmoud

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“…The main goals of political speeches are to persuade, to educate and to inform the public, as well as to incite or to entertain them. According to Abdel-Moety (2015) and Soomro and Bahram (2015), discourse analysis entails linguistic analyses of connected works and speeches, including political addresses.…”

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A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Female Vice-Presidential Candidate’s Acceptance Speech

Asafo-Adjei,

Bukari,

Klu

2023

REiLA Journal

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This instrumental qualitative case study examined the acceptance speech of Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, the first female vice presidential candidate of a major political party in Ghana. The study aimed to identify the discourse elements and cohesive devices used in the speech and to evaluate how she conveyed her political ideology and gender identity. Specifically, the research question was: which discourse elements and cohesive devices were employed, and how were political ideology and gender identity manifested in the speech? The data consisted of an eight-page speech delivered on July 28, 2020, in Accra, containing 3,972 words. Fairclough's (2015) Three-Dimensional textual analysis model was used for data analysis, which includes description, presentation and interpretation, and explanation of social reasons. Results showed that Professor Opoku-Agyemang used discourse elements and cohesive devices such as 'however,' 'also,' and 'second' to highlight her academic and political expertise and present herself as a qualified vice presidential candidate. She aimed to inspire women and encourage them to aspire to any position, including becoming the president of Ghana. The study's findings contribute to existing literature and can inform future research on female political representation, exposing the approaches of a marginalized group and their use of speeches to gain recognition within Ghana’s political space and beyond.

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A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Female Vice-Presidential Candidate’s Acceptance Speech

Asafo-Adjei,

Bukari,

Klu

2023

REiLA Journal

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Persuasion in Political Discourse: Barak Obama’s Presidential Speeches Against Isis

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Nematzadeh

2018

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Lingvist.

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The Central Pronouns in Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Debate: A Grammatical Analysis

Adejare¹

2017

IJEL

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This grammatical analysis of the central pronouns in Nigeria's 2015 Presidential Debate aimed at determining their occurrence, semantic manifestations, typological and thematic distribution, and textual functions. Twenty-three central pronouns with a combined frequency of 2409 were identified and analysed using Quirk et al.'s (1985) framework. The result showed a 58% representation and a frequency of 94.6 in 1000 words, with the forms we, you, it, I, they, our emerging the most frequent. Personal pronouns were a hundred times more frequent than reflexive pronouns and fourteen times more recurring than possessives. The 1st person, 2nd person and 3rd person forms respectively represent approximately one-half, one-quarter, and one-third of total person contrast made; however, a dominance of plural over singular was seen and this was more pronounced with 2nd person. Whereas the ratio of masculine to feminine was 22:1, neuter gender was generally dominant. A dominance of subjective case over objective case was revealed while genitive case featured as determinatives only. Pronominal choices were governed by theme, structure of responses, and idiosyncrasy, as I was more concentrated under motivation for contesting than any other theme and under recognising and justifying the problem than specifying actions to be taken or making concluding marks. The multiple-authored texts used manifestly exposed the diversity of pronoun forms and their combinatory possibility, which was advantageous since the focus was not a given politician's idiolect but the use of an aspect of language in politics, namely the central pronouns.

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American Political Discourse as Manifested in Hillary Clinton's Interviews: A Critical Approach

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Female Vice-Presidential Candidate’s Acceptance Speech

A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Female Vice-Presidential Candidate’s Acceptance Speech

Persuasion in Political Discourse: Barak Obama’s Presidential Speeches Against Isis

The Central Pronouns in Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Debate: A Grammatical Analysis

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