The construction of a ‘narrative’ in Australian federal budget speeches, 1996–2013

Lukin, Annabelle

doi:10.1080/10361146.2015.1034237

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“…It is not a concern because the article only analyzes the language of the speeches. Although a speech writer may prepare and can influence the speeches, their content reflects the government's perspective (Lukin, 2015;Thompson, 2015). The actual writer is perhaps unimportant because these speeches are considered an authentic and authoritative portrayal of the economy (Rajandran, 2013).…”

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“…For example, the 1999 budget speech is tabled in 1998. The speech is considered a genre because there is general consensus about its purposes, structures and conventions (Lukin, 2015;Thompson, 2015). From 1999 to 2018, the Minister of Finance, who was often the Prime Minister, tabled the speech.…”

Section: Budget Speechesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Later, Prime Minister Najib Razak introduces the Economic Transformation Program to justify government intervention in the economy (Rajandran, 2013). Ferry, Zakaria and Eckersley (2014), Lukin (2015) and Thompson (2015) are among the few studies examining budget speeches. In Australia, Treasurer Costello criticizes the previous government and promotes his government while Treasurer Swan conceals his government's achievements (Lukin, 2015).…”

Section: Political Discourse In Speechesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…nouns, pronouns, verbs, tenses, aspects, adjectives, adverbs, modals, nominalization) convey the economic roles of the government and citizens. Because the analysis involves numerous speeches, Lukin (2015) and Thompson (2015) propose the use of frequency and concordance to focus on relevant parts of budget speeches before conducting a close reading.…”

Section: Political Discourse In Speechesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Budget speeches are archetypal texts portraying economic competence, as they describe public initiatives, and enable the government to anticipate revenues, expenditures and achievements (Lukin, 2015). These speeches become the central economic speech in the government's repertoire of speeches because their content involves the whole country and a variety of domains (e.g.…”

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Portraying Economic Competence in Malaysian Federal Budget Speeches

Rajandran

2019

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Budget speeches are a fixed political event in Malaysia. Their content involves the whole country and a variety of domains. Despite the cornucopia of research on speeches, budget speeches are rarely selected and speeches from Malaysia have not been examined in detail. The discourse in these speeches can display how a developing country tackles economic decision-making. The article explores the portrayal of economic competence in Malaysian federal budget speeches. It conducts a linguistic analysis grounded in critical discourse studies. The analysis employs frequency, concordance and the representation of social actors to decipher monetary amount, politonyms, ethnonyms and toponyms. The discourse in budget speeches can portray economic competence, which has three characteristics. First, the government can claim to be financially solvent and propose significant initiatives. Second, the government introduces desirable initiatives because it intervenes to ensure economic growth. Third, the government helps citizens of several ethnicities and regions although Bumiputeras, Sabah and Sarawak are prioritized. The portrayal entails an ideological government-citizen binary because the government is the source of initiatives while citizens are the target of initiatives. The portrayal was reproduced in other texts and was repeated in the media. The portrayal became the endorsed way to think about the former Barisan Nasional (BN) government but other parties questioned it. The article argues that BN sought to legitimize its political power but its legitimacy became compromised, and it was defeated in the 2018 general elections.

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Portraying Economic Competence in Malaysian Federal Budget Speeches

Rajandran

2019

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Voices of Economic Competence: Legitimizing the Government in Federal Budget Speeches

Rajandran¹

2023

Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia

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Budget speeches are an overview of public economic initiatives and can anticipate revenues, expenditures, policies, and activities. These speeches enable a government to discursively legitimize economic competence. While legitimation can be achieved by the representation and evaluation of economic initiatives, intertextuality should also be analyzed because the use of voices helps or hinders legitimation. The chapter explores how the Barisan Nasional (BN) government legitimized its economic competence through intertextual voicing. It outlines the source and engagement of voices and operationalizes a method that involves five sequential stages. The chapter analyzes an archive of Malaysian federal budget speeches from 2010 to 2018. The analysis discloses various instances of intertextual voicing because the speeches articulate voices in economics, politics, and religion. The choice of voices is shaped by the Malaysian context. Intertextual voicing legitimizes BN through moralization and authorization. The voices can be considered as voices of economic competence because economic, political, and religious voices discursively legitimize actions and decisions for the economy. Intertextual voicing serves ideological purposes because it perpetuates government economic agency. In budget speeches, BN promotes itself as indispensable to Malaysian development, and it should consequently continue to govern the country. These speeches then become part of the genres that validate BN.

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Review of selected research in applied linguistics published in Australia (2008–2014)

Oliver

Chen

Moore³

2016

Lang. Teach.

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This article reviews the significant and diverse range of research in applied linguistics published in Australia in the period 2008–2014. Whilst acknowledging that a great deal of research by Australian scholars has been published internationally during these seven years, this review is based on books, journal articles, and conference proceedings published in Australia. Many of these sources will be unfamiliar to an international audience, and the purpose of this article is to highlight this body of research and the themes emerging from it. The journals selected in this review includeAustralian Journal of Language and Literacy, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL), BABEL, English in Australia, English Australia, Papers in Language Testing and Assessment, Prospect: An Australian Journal of TESOL, TESOL in Context, andUniversity of Sydney Papers in TESOL. Selected refereed proceedings are from key national conferences including: ALAA (Applied Linguistics Association of Australia), ACTA (Australian Council of TESOL Association), ASFLA (Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association), and ALS (Australian Linguistics Society). Our review of selected applied linguistics work revolves around the following themes: the responses to the needs of government planning and policy; the complexity of Australia's multicultural, multilingual society; the concern for recognizing context and culture as key factors in language and language learning; social activism in supporting language pedagogy and literacy programmes at all levels of education; and acknowledgement of the unique place held by Indigenous languages and Aboriginal English in the national linguistic landscape.

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The construction of a ‘narrative’ in Australian federal budget speeches, 1996–2013

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Portraying Economic Competence in Malaysian Federal Budget Speeches

Portraying Economic Competence in Malaysian Federal Budget Speeches

Voices of Economic Competence: Legitimizing the Government in Federal Budget Speeches

Review of selected research in applied linguistics published in Australia (2008–2014)

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