How Duterte States His View on The Philippines and Other Countries Relation: A Discursive Strategy Analysis

Abstract

Different types of social or cultural background, combined with a region or social status, go into the making of spoken or written discourse. One of the interesting spoken discourses to discuss is political interview. It often reveals the intention of political leaders’ way of speaking. While there are those who are subtle in their way of talking, there are also a few who do not, one of whom is the Philippines’ president, Rodrigo Roa Duterte. Known for his outspoken personality, he often states controversial things that influence his country and derive critics from various places. Using van Dijk’s (2004) framework, this study analyzes the macro and micro discursive strategies used by Duterte in delivering his views on other countries’ relations with the Philippines based on his most-watched English interview with Russia Today. The findings revealed that the macro strategies used by Duterte are positive self-presentation, negative other-presentation, and outside polarization. Meanwhile, the mostly micro discursive strategies used are implication, lexicalization, and example/illustration.

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.…”