Hegemony In Pnoy’s And Duterte’s 1st State Of Nation Address: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Person Deixis

Abstract

This paper compares Benigno S. Aquino's and Rodrigo R. Duterte's person deixis and argues that their use of such a linguistic device in their first State of the Nation Address (SONA) is deliberate to communicate hegemony of inclusion. Triangulation of quantitative and qualitative methods is observed to analyze the person deictic markers in the two speeches. The quantitative part involves counting the number of occurrences of the lexical names and person deixis used; whereas, the qualitative method involves analysis of the nominals and pronominals used within the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) frameworks of

Social Distancing, Community Quarantine and Bullets: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s Speeches on the War against COVID-19 Pandemic

“…This present study focuses on the speeches of the Philippine President Rodrigo RoaDutertewhich he delivered in response to the threat of the newly-discovered virus, COVID-19 in the Philippines and in the rest of the world. While several studies were already conducted specifically concentrating on the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of his discourses such as Chaerunnisa & Dewi (2019), Dacay (2018), Salvaleon (2018) and Dimaculangan and Dimaculangan (2018), it is of great interest to look at his public discourses in times of a health crisis. The researcher believes that this present study would give another perspective of Duterte's ideologies in dealing with the war against the new disease than his usual speeches on his controversial campaign on war against drugs which becomes his and his administration's identity aside from his other equally controversial foreign policies and international relations.…”

“…Similarly, Dimaculangan and Dimaculangan (2018) have emphasized further that language is indeed a tool of manipulating any sort of political discourse in order to cajole the listeners or the audience, so that a politician's political agenda can be achieved by expressing his leadership tenets and his desire to build unison and cohesion with them. Their considerable great interest to political discourse analysis is highly influenced by the richness of the language that constructs a well-organized structure that politicians employ in gaining public supports contrary to the linguists and analysts whose primary goal is to look at how the politician's language materializes such support Khanya & Hamzeloub (2014).…”