Colin Powell's Speech to the UN: A Discourse Analytic Study of ReconstitutedEthos

A Micro-macro Paradigm to Identify Simultaneous Interpreting Strategies (SISs) with Reference to -taxis Relations in UN Discourse

“…Similarly, McEntee-Atalianis (2011) analysed metaphor in the statements of the UN Security-General and concluded that metaphor is strategically used as a tool of polarisation and legitimisation of power. This supports the conclusion of Cheng (2012) who reported that the use of modality for self-positioning helped in evidence-building and ideological reconstruction of the distorted image of the US administration as evident in Colin Powell's 2003 pre-war on Iraq statement in the UN. Likewise, Schnurr et al (2014) illustrated that the US's claim for leadership is dynamically exercised via a series of (inter)discursive normative practices that foreground actors and terms based on urgency, which is yet another attempt to refine the US worldview and its discourse of nuclear non-proliferation in a number of UNSC resolutions.…”

Discourse-Based Methods Across Texts and Semiotic Modes

“…Indeed, I look forward to the day when DA is recognized as a legitimate part of the “rhetorical tradition”—a methodological option that has its place alongside other approaches. I am confident this day is coming, especially since so many rhetoricians already embrace DA techniques—whether they are interested in style (Fahnestock, 2011), ethos (Cheng, 2012), controversy (Cramer, 2011), “textual silences” (Huckin, 2002), the rhetoric of futurity (Dunmire, 2011), or a host of other topics (Barton & Stygall, 2002; Huckin, 1992, 1997; Huckin, Andrus, & Clary-Lemon, 2012; Johnstone & Eisenhart, 2008). For those already familiar with DA, some of what I address here will be familiar—though the combination of procedures is original.…”

“…Rhetoricians recognize the constitutive mechanisms of rhetoric (Charland, 1987; Thieme, 2010)—how rhetors design audiences and position them to respond to their utterances. As Cheng (2012) observes, DA is “especially suited for studying the constitutive functions of rhetoric,” especially given its focus on the social and interactive aspects of language use (p. 425). I have already discussed some of the ways that SF approaches can help analysts understand constitutive discourse.…”

Negotiating Ethos: An Army Corps of Engineers Resource Manager Persuades a Community to Protect a Recreational Lake Area

“…Shared values play a prominent role as communicators and audience coconstruct identities specifically through language because language is necessarily sermonic (Weaver, 1970), meaning it communicates values discursively. AsCheng (2012)discusses, communicators and audiences already display and construct identities individually before they engage in a particular rhetorical situation. However, in the process of accomplishing social action discursively through language, the Burkean concept of identification (Burke, 1969) “overcomes division and unites individuals along various possible lines of interest (beliefs, motives, tastes, etc.)…”