Discursive strategies in Chavez's political discourse: voicing, distancing, and shifting

Reyes, Antonio

doi:10.1080/17405900801990074

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“…While previous studies have focused on the distancing effect that results between the speaker and some other groups of people from the use of an exclusive 'we' (e.g. Reyes-Rodríguez 2008), the present study reports on the distancing effect achieved in political speeches or written documents through the use of first person singular and plural pronouns and the choice of process types and modality levels. The paper discussed the way the authors associated themselves with the propositions they made through a combination of choice of pronouns, process types and modality levels.…”

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confidence: 92%

Strategic use of nouns and pronouns in public discourse

Ho¹

2022

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This paper discusses how the first person pronouns ‘I’ and ‘We’ and the two proper nouns ‘the Education Bureau [EDB]’ and ‘the Government’ were used strategically by government officials in an attempt to delineate the level of involvement and commitment of the officials themselves, the EDB and the Hong Kong Government in the course of implementing and fine-tuning the medium-of-instruction policy in Hong Kong’s secondary schools. The data comprises the speeches delivered at various formal educational occasions and the documents issued and distributed to various stakeholders of the secondary education in Hong Kong. The clauses having these pronouns and proper nouns as either the Agent or Beneficiary were identified and examined in order to find out: (1) the level of commitment of the officials/administrative entities with reference to the process types used; (2) the level of commitment of these officials/administrative entities with reference to the modality level chosen; (3) the power status of the officials/administrative entities; and (4) the specific role, if any, played by the officials/administrative entities. Systemic functional grammar was the framework being drawn upon in undertaking the analysis.

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confidence: 92%

Strategic use of nouns and pronouns in public discourse

Ho¹

2022

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“…Al Jazeera also, however, employed the delegitimisation strategy of emotional manipulation, portraying the coalition as ruthless due to their overlooking the consequences of their actions for the Yemeni people, thus generating a widespread humanitarian crisis, with disease affecting millions of Yemenis and dozens of children being killed or wounded. By emphasising the number of victims and breaking down the overall term 'humanitarian crisis' into its separate constituents 'famine and diseases', the coalition's impact was also exaggerated by means of 'Explicit Emotional Enumeration' (Reyes-Rodríguez, 2008). Al Jazeera nevertheless mainly used the voice of expertise to delegitimise the coalition's actions and tarnish its image, creating reports that depend on authoritative sources and speech to show the audience that its is an authoritative sources; as Philips (2004) claims, such evidencing ensures that the report is both more persuasive and more attended to.…”

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confidence: 99%

A critical discourse analysis of Al Jazeera’s online coverage of the war in Yemen before and after the 5 June 2017 Gulf crisis

Alluhaidah¹

2023

Discourse & Communication

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In this study, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was utilised to examine the Al Jazeera Arabic news website with respect to its reports on the social actors in the Yemen war, particularly the KSA, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain coalition and the opposing Houthis, both before and after the Gulf crisis that occurred on 5 June 2017. The analysed data included a total of 32 news articles related to the war in Yemen, with 16 articles covering the period prior to the Crisis, from 2015 to 2017, and 16 covering the period following the onset of the crisis, from 2017 to 2019. The overall aim was to uncover the ideological implications of various linguistic elements, such as lexical choices, news headline creation, and de-legitimisation strategies, and the results revealed identifiable, distinct, and non-random changes in tone and angle of representation relating to the various social actors and their actions. Before the crisis, the coalition was represented positively while Houthis was presented negatively, while after the crisis, the tone towards these social actors was completely reversed. The various discursive strategies used in the articles across both periods thus show that the coverage of the Yemen crisis was intended to ideologically and politically guide readers’ understanding of the crisis.

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“…However, since the actions are dangerous, the speaker has chosen the active voice to front the oppressor and possibly his alleged actions as well. The alleged danger the United States poses to humanity was also noted by Hugo Chavez (Reyes-Rodríguez, 2008). In the speech Chavez delivered at the 54th United Nations General Assembly, he said the United States was dangerous to humanity (ibid).…”

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A discursive reading of ideology, dominance and resistance in political texts

Lukanga

2024

Ujah J. Art Hum

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The North (or the West) considers itself superior to the South and has thus arrogated to itself the right to ‘guide’ it in many a sphere, something that has gone down badly with some countries in the South, so much so that some of them resist this domination. It is against this background that this paper analyses four texts from the two contending geo-political zones to untangle discursive strategies of positive self-presentation and negative other presentation. Using Teun van Dijk’s (2006) ideological square, the paper analyses the texts concerning aspects of ideology, dominance and resistance. It has been found that Donald Trump and the European Parliament (representing the North), as well as John Pombe Joseph Magufuli and Nicolas Maduro (representing the South), deployed semantic macrostructures, macro-speech acts, the active voice and lexical resources, among others, to do positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation. The paper contends that the two sides deployed the strategies because the North wants to continue dominating and exploiting the South and the South wants to liberate itself from the chain the former placed around its neck centuries ago. About the South’s goal, the paper shows how the South could go it alone, with a bias towards Africa.

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Discursive strategies in Chavez's political discourse: voicing, distancing, and shifting

Cited by 19 publications

References 33 publications

Strategic use of nouns and pronouns in public discourse

Strategic use of nouns and pronouns in public discourse

A critical discourse analysis of Al Jazeera’s online coverage of the war in Yemen before and after the 5 June 2017 Gulf crisis

A discursive reading of ideology, dominance and resistance in political texts

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