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Researchers have noted that when delivering speeches, politicians tend to evoke solidarity through the use of linguistic forms such as personal pronouns. This article presents an analysis of pronominal choices (e.g., person deixis I, you, we, they) issued by Donald Trump during 10 presentations (e.g., town halls, victory speeches). The study uses a...
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... Chi-Square tests of independence. We first begin with Table 1, which presents the topics discussed in the ten presentations. We begin with Trump's hot topics with the purpose of setting the backdrop for the forthcoming person deixis and verb use analyses. ...
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... begin with Trump's hot topics with the purpose of setting the backdrop for the forthcoming person deixis and verb use analyses. Table 1 presents the distribution of the topics in raw frequencies. Table 1 shows that the two most preferred topics in the corpus of the ten presentations were his campaign (20.9%) and opponents (14.2%). ...
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... 1 presents the distribution of the topics in raw frequencies. Table 1 shows that the two most preferred topics in the corpus of the ten presentations were his campaign (20.9%) and opponents (14.2%). Interestingly, topics such as Asia, (3.7%), Voters (2.7%), Republicans (2.1%), Healthcare (1.9%), Education (1.3%), his family (1.1%), ...
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... Chi-Square tests of independence. We first begin with Table 1, which presents the topics discussed in the ten presentations. We begin with Trump's hot topics with the purpose of setting the backdrop for the forthcoming person deixis and verb use analyses. ...
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... begin with Trump's hot topics with the purpose of setting the backdrop for the forthcoming person deixis and verb use analyses. Table 1 presents the distribution of the topics in raw frequencies. Table 1 shows that the two most preferred topics in the corpus of the ten presentations were his campaign (20.9%) and opponents (14.2%). ...
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... 1 presents the distribution of the topics in raw frequencies. Table 1 shows that the two most preferred topics in the corpus of the ten presentations were his campaign (20.9%) and opponents (14.2%). Interestingly, topics such as Asia, (3.7%), Voters (2.7%), Republicans (2.1%), Healthcare (1.9%), Education (1.3%), his family (1.1%), ...
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... Third, the Us-versus-Them dichotomy is explored through the defining features of personal pronoun reference laid down by McCarthy & Carter (1994), Hogeweg & Hoop (2015) and Flores-Ferrán (2017). Moreover, Fairclough (2015) highlights the way politicians use shifts in personal pronoun reference and Glover (2000) (2016), to feature one of Trump's strategies (cf. ...
... In political discourse, politicians can show how they position themselves through the shifts in indexical expressions (Fairclough, 2015). Through the use of the first-person pronoun reference in the plural, i.e., we, speakers may be hoping to index themselves in different groups, depending on the context of communication (Flores-Ferrán, 2017). According to Glover (2000) (2017) found that Trump's manipulation was at stake when he shifted from distal to proximal expressions. ...
COVID-19 is one of the most remarkable worldwide crises of the latest decade with 33 million
cases in the US as of the 1
st of July 2021. In these difficult times citizens seem to have looked
up to their leaders for guidance and support (Wood & Owens & Durham, 2005) as largely
represented in the media (i.e., print press, online press and social media) whose study is
nevertheless beyond the scope of full coverage and analysis in this dissertation. Rather
interesting for this case study is the scrutiny of the way Donald Trump, the running President
of the USA at the moment COVID-19 hit the country, interacted online and established the
virtual rapport with interlocutors (Walther, 1992; Crystal, 2006; Greengard, 2009; Murthy,
2013; Baym, 2015 & Burgess & Baym, 2020) given his reported multiple ways of
communicating globally with a focus on the COVID pandemic in the United States. The
analysis of online Twitter corpora selected from Trump’s Twitter in two periods (5 months
prior and after COVID mentions in Trump’s Twitter) makes it possible to look at the way
Twitter messages were encoded, particularly evidenced in indexical expressions (i.e., personal
pronoun reference) and the cooperative principle, both objects of scrutiny in this piece of
research. More than the linguistic choices, or possible colligations and collocations to be
associated with the lexeme COVID (via corpus linguistics and a discourse-based approach,
following Baker, 2006; Biber, Conrad and Reppen ,1998; as well as corpus pragmatics, in the
line of Romero-Trillo, 2017), this exploratory research study of interdisciplinary kind intends
to disclose relevant pragmalinguistic strategies (Sousa & Ivanova, 2012) evidenced in tweet
exchanges between a leading politician in the global scenario and internet users (Mirzaeian,
2020). This dissertation brings to the fore and discusses strategies likely to strengthen or deepen
the gap among interlocutors.
... The present findings agree with that of earlier studies (e.g. Abdulameer, 2019;Flores-Ferrán, 2017;Pratiwi, 2018;Purba, 2015;A. Putri et al., 2018;N. ...
The objective of the study is “to describe how deixis are used in Donald Trump’s Speech to UN General Assembly”. The design of this study is a descriptive qualitative design. Source of data collection in this research is the text of Donald Trump’s Speech to UN General Assembly done in 2018. After collecting data, the researcher found and selected data that the most of sentences or words have deixis types. After the data were reduced, then the next step is to display data, then, presenting data. Data summarizing was a means to know the result of the study. Here, the researcher made conclusion after completely identifying and analyzing the types of deixis and the most dominant one found in the speech. Based on data analysis, the researcher found five kinds of deixis in Donald Trump’s Speech to UN General Assembly, they are person deixis, spatial/place deixis, temporal/time deixis, discourse deixis and social deixis. The total number of deixis in this speech are 344 utterances. The deixis that mostly used by the Donald Trump is the person deixis with the frequency of 279 (81.10%).
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... Critical thinking has been defined as the ability to assess, interpret, and evaluate ideas, concepts, or arguments, and to examine the reasons for believing something (4). At a time when it appears that many people can be convinced by public statements that are taken at face value (8), and with increasing use of the Internet and social media with unreliable sources of information, the ability to think critically while being open minded appears to be as important as ever. Previous work has described indirect methods of teaching to develop critical thinking using physiological principles (4). ...
Discourse analysis is a prat of applied English linguistics that is used to analyze or examine the communication process of society. The study of language is related with the term of communication that are considered as a very important element of linguistics. It refers to the communicative function of the language itself as predication or reference that is used for representing the information occurred in the world and thoughts or feelings of the participants involved in a communication process.
The objective of this study is to identify the kinds of deixes behind the inauguration address of President Joe Biden and to identify the significance of them are shown in the most prevalent deictic words in the Inaugural Speech of Joe Biden. In addition, The study investigates the contribution this research provides to pragmatics teaching. Descriptive qualitative method was employed for data analysis, because it examines the various kinds of deixis seen in this speech. The researchers have written the speech into script, analyzed the deixis utilized, identified the type of deixis, and figure out the deixis contributions in pragmatics class. The findings revealed that three deixis, namely personal, spatial, and temporal deixis were identified in the inauguration address of Joe Biden; Personal deixis (67% data), spatial deixis (21% data) temporal deixis (12% data). After analyzing the three types of deixis in the speech of Joe Biden, the researchers has concluded that in first person deixis the term we become the most commonly used. As President of the United States, he represents the people of the United States in carrying out specified tasks and taking measures that benefit the country. The explanations of deixis also indicated that personal deixis was the most significant type to be found in Joe Biden’s speech inauguration. This research can be utilized by lecturers in particular in the deixis field as teaching material on pragmatics. The research is intended to inform students of the fact that analysis of pragmatics is a solution for those who take a lesson in university Tujuan studi ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi jenis-jenis deiksis di balik pidato pelantikan presiden Joe Biden serta mengidentifikasi makna penting yang diperlihatkan dalam kata-kata paling umum dalam pidato pelantikan Joe Biden. Selain itu, dalam studi ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi kontribusi dalam penelitian ini terkait pengajaran pragmatis. Metode deskriptif kualitatif digunakan untuk menganalisis data, karena dalam studi ini mengamati beberapa jenis-jenis deixis dalam pidato tersebut. Peneliti telah menulis pidato kedalam naskah, menganalisis deiksis yang muncul, mengidentifikasi jenis deiksis, dan menemukan kontribusi dalam kelas pragmatik. Hasil dari penelitian ini memperlihatkan bahwa terdapat tiga jenis deiksis; personal, spatial, temporal yang telah diidentifikasi. Sebanyak 67% personal deiksis, 21% spatial deiksis, dan 12% temporal deiksis. Setelah menganalisis ketiga tipe deiksis dari pidato Joe Biden, peneliti menyimpulkan bahwa dalam personal deiksis, kata we menjadi kata yang sering dipakai. Sebagai presiden Amerika Serikat, Joe Biden mewakili rakyat Amerika Serikat dalam melaksanakan tugas-tugas tertentu dan mengambil Langkah-langkah yang menguntungkan negara. Penjelasan mengenai deiksis juga menunjukkan bahwa personal deiksis adalah jenis yang paling penting dalam penyajian pidato oleh Joe Biden. Penelitian ini dapat digunakan oleh para dosen khususnya di bidang deiksis sebagai bahan pengajaran atas pragmatics. Penelitian ini dimaksudkan untuk menginformasikan siswa sebuah fakta bahwa analisis pragmatik adalah sebuah solusi bagi mereka yang mengambil pelajaran di universitas
World leaders had to guide their people through difficult times in 2020, with many trying to win compliance and support via a range of channels of communication. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, faced the same challenge. This study explores the linguistic features of his 14 COVID-related speeches in 2020, with the aim of revealing the world he constructs in them and how he furthers his political aims. A blend of corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis is used to draw out frequent patterns of representation within the generic structure which emerged from the data. The metaphorical construction of the nation as a family, evident in lexical choices, especially we, family and together, creates a relationship of unity between President Ramaphosa and the citizens. His reference to the national addresses as ‘family meetings’ further flattens the hierarchy implied in the political relationship of governor and governed. These features have the effect of locating the speeches in a time when mediatisation was less pervasive, and in a more personal context. Simultaneously, trust and compliance are invoked by the shift in role as President from a powerful position of control, to a position of shared concern and responsibility.
This grammatical analysis of the central pronouns in Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Debate aimed at determining their occurrence, semantic manifestations, typological and thematic distribution, and textual functions. Twenty-three central pronouns with a combined frequency of 2409 were identified and analysed using Quirk et al.’s (1985) framework. The result showed a 58% representation and a frequency of 94.6 in 1000 words, with the forms we, you, it, I, they, our emerging the most frequent. Personal pronouns were a hundred times more frequent than reflexive pronouns and fourteen times more recurring than possessives. The 1st person, 2nd person and 3rd person forms respectively represent approximately one-half, one-quarter, and one-third of total person contrast made; however, a dominance of plural over singular was seen and this was more pronounced with 2nd person. Whereas the ratio of masculine to feminine was 22:1, neuter gender was generally dominant. A dominance of subjective case over objective case was revealed while genitive case featured as determinatives only. Pronominal choices were governed by theme, structure of responses, and idiosyncrasy, as I was more concentrated under motivation for contesting than any other theme and under recognising and justifying the problem than specifying actions to be taken or making concluding marks. The multiple-authored texts used manifestly exposed the diversity of pronoun forms and their combinatory possibility, which was advantageous since the focus was not a given politician’s idiolect but the use of an aspect of language in politics, namely the central pronouns.
