The President and the Public: Inaugural Addresses in American History

Korzi, Michael J.

doi:10.1080/07343460409507709

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“…On the other hand, first person pronouns are much less frequent in the "public" sample, both in singular ("I," "me," "my") and plural ("our") forms. This finding bears out the claim in extant literature that earlier presidents thought of themselves as Constitutional officers (Korzi, 2004).…”

Section: Cluster Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 57%

“…Such studies assume one of two approaches. Most scholars focus on how the addresses have changed over the years, often linking their findings to changes in American politics and society (Chester, 1980;Hinckley, 1990;Korzi, 2004;Ryan, 1993;Tulis, 1987). Others look for perennial themes in the addresses (Campbell & Jamieson, 1985;Ericson, 1997).…”

Section: A Qualitative Approachmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The goals of this article are methodological and the empirical analysis is only meant to offer a practical application of the hybrid approach. To point out two limitations of this analysis, (i) the term "Constitution" has been used in fewer than half the inaugurals of the last century (Korzi, 2004), and (ii) the term "people" has been used more than 550 times in the Inaugural Address Corpus, or double the 225 occurrences of the term "public" that was used for this analysis. The findings presented here are, therefore, not intended to resolve the debate over how American presidents have, in their inaugural addresses, viewed their office and its relationship with the Constitution and the public.…”

Section: Cluster Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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When Scale Meets Depth: Integrating Natural Language Processing and Textual Analysis for Studying Digital Corpora

Shahin

2016

Communication Methods and Measures

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As computer-assisted research of voluminous datasets becomes more pervasive, so does the criticism of its epistemological, methodological, and ethical/normative inadequacies. This article proposes a hybrid approach that combines the scale of computational methods with the depth of qualitative analysis. It uses simple natural language processing algorithms to extract purposive samples from large textual corpora, which can then be analyzed using interpretive techniques. This approach helps research become more theoretically grounded and contextually sensitive-two major failings of typical "Big Data" studies. Simultaneously, it allows qualitative scholars to examine datasets that are otherwise too large to study manually and also bring more rigor to the process of sampling. The method is illustrated with two case studies, one looking at the inaugural addresses of U.S. presidents and the other investigating the news coverage of two shootings at an army camp in Texas.

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Section: Cluster Interpretationmentioning

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Section: A Qualitative Approachmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Cluster Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…In the main body of the address, Bingu uses material processes to set out his political and economic principles that would govern the new administration by demonstrating what the government has achieved, what they are doing, and what they would do in different aspects of affair. Through the processes of doings and actions, he affirms his commitment to values the nation has pursued so far by creating a sense of continuity between the glories of the past and the challenges of the present, and to reassure his audience, in the words of Korzi (2004) that the transition to the new tenure in office does not pose any threat to the nation's historic legacy. See the following pair of clauses in Table 2: As he addresses the nation, as noted in the examples (5-7) in Table 2, Bingu assures Malawians that his administrative policies, witnessed in the first tenure, will continue.…”

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Presidents and Ideologies: A Transitivity Analysis of Bingu wa Mutharika’s Inaugural Address

Kondowe¹

2014

IJLL

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Abstract:The study is set to analyse how the third Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika manipulated language in his second inaugural address to enhance his political ideologies by using Halliday's transitivity system as a theoretical framework. Among the six processes outlined in the framework, the study discovers that material processes highly dominate the speech, distantly followed by relational, while verbal processes come third. Material clauses suggest that Bingu construes the world in terms of his past and future happenings by commemorating his first term achievements and setting his administrative and political principles of his next tenure. His choice of actors suggests that Bingu attributes the achievements to himself which is a characteristic of undemocratic leadership style. He also uses a majority of relational identifications to point out to himself and his administration as the main development players. Verbal processes have been used as markers of transition and topic shift; still, he refers to himself as the main sayer. The speech foregrounds Bingu as a leader with autocratic and dictatorship leadership ideologies. The study concludes that such leadership characteristics could be possible reasons that led to his political downfall as his record on good governance, human rights, and political tolerance significantly got worsened in his second term.

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“…In a study of George Bush political ideologies, Korzi (2004) notes that Bush emphasized that government is not the answer to the nation's ills, rather it is individual's actions and responsibilities that can make America at "its best". To him, the role of government is to create an environment where people themselves can act to handle the problems they face.…”

Section: The Use Of Wementioning

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Interpersonal Metafunctions in Bingu wa Mutharika’s Second-Term Political Discourse: A Systemic Functional Grammatical Approach

Kondowe¹

2014

IJL

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Modern studies in discourse analysis have witnessed an increasing interest in presidential political speeches. The major argument has been that the presidential speeches are often ideologically loaded. Hence, analyzing such speeches would provide an insight into their hidden ideologies. This study aims at analyzing Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika's inaugural address through the linguistic lens of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) by focusing on choice of mood, modal auxiliary operators, and personal pronouns. Results of mood choices reveal that the address is information-centered as he opted highly for declarative and used imperative sparsely. Modal auxiliary operators of median scale turns out mostly by favoring will. The personal pronoun we, which is followed in majority by I, implies that the speech is exclusive as Mutharika continuously referred to himself and his administration leaving out the citizens. The analysis shows that Mutharika did not perform well on establishing interpersonal relations with the people during his second term. He created distance between him and the citizens and implied a sense of authority, making the addressee experience a feel that he and his administration were a strong team to initiate and implement any development related endeavor; and that the citizens were merely passive receivers and consumers. The study demonstrates how leaders' political discourses unearth a sort of contradictions between their ideologies at early and later stages of their leadership. It further provides sufficient proof that the grammar of speech is not merely a combinational tool of creating correct constructions, but a method of structuring information and transferring ideology.

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The President and the Public: Inaugural Addresses in American History

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

When Scale Meets Depth: Integrating Natural Language Processing and Textual Analysis for Studying Digital Corpora

When Scale Meets Depth: Integrating Natural Language Processing and Textual Analysis for Studying Digital Corpora

Presidents and Ideologies: A Transitivity Analysis of Bingu wa Mutharika’s Inaugural Address

Interpersonal Metafunctions in Bingu wa Mutharika’s Second-Term Political Discourse: A Systemic Functional Grammatical Approach

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