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Presidential Discourses of Transition
Abstract This chapter returns to Barack Obama’s so-called “apology tour” and explores the function and place of the “transitional apology” through a comparative lens. Situating Obama’s “reckoning with history” in the context of apologies made by foreign heads of state and government over the past century illustrates how the initiatives ...openaire +1 more source
Decoding the construal of change in presidential discourse
Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 2023Change causes changes in the language people use to talk about phenomena, including change itself. Such changes lead to the emergence of “new discourse practices” (Fairclough, 1992:6), which usually featurein the speeches those holding positions of power and authority make.
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The 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign: Changing Discourse on Palestine
Journal of Palestine Studies, 2016This essay examines the discourse on Palestine/Israel in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, charting the impact of the Palestine rights movement on the domestic U.S. policy debate. Policy analyst, author, and long-time activist Phyllis Bennis notes the sea change within the Democratic Party evident in the unprecedented debate on the issue outside ...
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Case 5: Yemen—Presidential Political Discourse During the Revolution
2014Yemenis were inspired by the revolutionary movements in Tunisia and Egypt in early 2011. On the evening of February 11, the day of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, thousands of joyful youths converged on Sanaa’s Liberation Square chanting the same slogans of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: “Irha1” (out) and “Alsha’abe Yureed Isqat al-Nizam” (the ...
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THE ROLE OF INTERTEXTUALITY IN AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL DISCOURSE
2014The article deals with functioning of intertextuality signals, such as precedent utterances, in modern political discourse of the USA. The authors study specific characteristics of American presidential discourse and bring some examples of allusions, citations, quotation, etc.
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Just War: Critical Discourse Analysis of US Presidential Speeches
International Journal of Arabic-English StudiesWar discourse plays an important role in the current political and media agenda. This CDA-based study aimed at identifying how the nature of conflict affects the discursive practices used for conflict representation. The concept of war discourse was thoroughly described in view of a just war tradition. Two contexts of extensively covered conflicts were
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Hidden Bias in the Discourse of American Presidential Candidates
2012The paper focuses on the analysis of the use of hidden bias in American presidential debates in the years 2000, 2004 and 2008. Hidden bias is one of the most common forms of doublespeak, i.e. language that is used in order to manipulate people’s thought and influence their perception of reality.
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