Brand Royal: Meghan Markle, feuding families, and disruptive duchessing in Brexit era Britain

Pramaggiore, Maria; Kerrigan, Páraic

doi:10.1080/14680777.2021.1928258

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“…Additionally, Meghan's identity as a mixed-race woman also contributes to influencing others as she represents the non-white community, especially women. Meghan is also a well-known feminist (Pramaggiore & Kerrigan, 2021) who always believes in equal rights among women and people of colour (Adam, 2018;Young, 2019). In light of this, the couple's well-known high profile celebrity status enables them to influence others with their words as they have supporters around the world, thus giving them a sense of social domination in discourse.…”

Section: Ideological Square Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, Dewangga (2021) did a study on Harry and Meghan's interview in Australia on 28 November 2017 by examining the violation of Grice's maxim in the interview. In a more recent study, Pramaggiore and Kerrigan (2021) studied the media representation of Meghan Markle's intersectional identities and emphasised more on the notion of feminism. Still, neither study has analysed the self-other representation in Meghan and Harry's CBS primetime interview from both CDA and narrative inquiry perspectives.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Critical Discourse Study on Meghan and Harry’s CBS Primetime Interview

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2022

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This study focuses on Meghan and Harry's narratives in the CBS Primetime interview with Oprah Winfrey where they highlighted the issues they faced before moving to America. During the interview, the couple raised several bombshells ranging from the lack of freedom, to Archie's royal title and security, racism, and the lack of support and guidance from the Royal Family, which negatively portrayed the Royal Family and British tabloids. Using van Dijk's ideological square model and its discursive strategies as a framework, this study examines how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex linguistically construct the self-other representations that are evident in their interview via critical discourse analysis and narrative inquiry approach. Findings show that the couple most commonly employed discursive strategies such as victimisation, vagueness, disclaimers, comparisons, evidentiality, hyperbole, history as a lesson, generalisation, pseudo-ignorance, implications, distancing, openness, and polarisation of us versus them. In doing so, they represented themselves as positive, while portraying the British tabloids and the Royal Family as the negative-other. Consequently, the use of language in this interview narrative may legitimise the Duke and Duchess of Sussex while suppress the Royal family and British tabloids. This paper is timely as it is only through in-depth analysis of the linguistic features that we are able to unveil ideological presupposition and biases underlying the interview. It also serves to educate the public that there is always more than one side to a story. Therefore, we should avoid having any biases or ideological presupposition towards anyone in any event before the truth is revealed from both sides.

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Section: Ideological Square Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%