The impact of Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis on the Analysis of Political Speech. Case Study: Barack OBAMA’s Speech on Osama BIN LADEN Death
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Date
2017
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
This study is corpus-based which analyses a set of texts selected from the speech made by
the previous United States president BARACK OBAMA on OSAMA BIN LADEN death, under
critical linguistics theories using critical discourse analysis methodological framwork. In the
light of Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics and Fairclough’s Critical Discourse
Analysis theoritical frameworks, the main objective of this study is to describe the informative
and persuasive strategies behind the linguistic choices and their intended ideologies in
Barack Obama's speech about Bin Laden death. The use of Systemic Functional Linguistics
provides us a systemic and functional model to describe the rhetorical strategies, social
power and the control of public discourse. Indeed, the elements of transitivity, modality,and
textual aspects allow us to discover how Obama relate the eradication of terrorism and the
role he makes and the role that he adresses to each of the audiences. Fairclough’s Critical
Discourse Analysis framework based on a Hallidayan perspective is used to explore the
thetorical strategies: logic, emotions and cultural values which are bound up with the overall
political purposes and to determine how mind control (Van Dijk, 2001) is linguistically
exerted in Obama’s linguistic choices
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72p.;30cm.(+cd)
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critical discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, rhetorical strategies, social power, mind control, linguistic choices and ideologies.
Citation
Linguistique Appliquée et Sémiotique Sociale