An analysis of President Barack Obama’s speech at President Nelson Mandela’s memorial, from critical discourse analysis perspectives
This study presents an attempt to apply a critical discourse analysis perspective to investigating a political speech addressed by President Barack Obama on the occasion of the Nelson Mandela’s memorial on December 10 th , 2013. Based on a brief overview of critical discourse...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/41118 |
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| Institution: | Vietnam National University, Hanoi |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This study presents an attempt to apply a critical discourse analysis perspective to
investigating a political speech addressed by President Barack Obama on the occasion
of the Nelson Mandela’s memorial on December 10
th
, 2013. Based on a brief overview
of critical discourse analysis introduced by Norman Fairclough, the study follows a
framework with three parts: Description, Interpretation and Explanation. It focuses on
the analysis of language features (lexical ones and
grammatical ones), the relationship
between situational and intertextual context, and the discourse process and social
process. Data for the research, thanks to which the objectives are achieved, are
collected from the research. The findings show that the
author employs linguistic
features as the strategies to represent his power and ideology. The ideology of
freedom, democracy and tolerance does not only belong to Nelson Mandela, but to
Barack Obama as well. That is the way Obama hopes to exert his power
and gain
support from people around the world. The analysis also proves that critical discourse
analysis is the smartest choice for those whose concern is about political discourse,
especially political speech. |
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