A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prayut Chan-o-cha’s Speeches of Elections and Reforms Rachayanandhana Phraekhao 5406610039 1 Introduction Politics is a struggle of power in order to put certain political, economic and social ideas into practice. In this process, language plays a crucial role. Every political action is prepared, accompanied, influenced and played by language. This paper analyses the political discourse of General Prayut Chan-o-Cha, the Prime Minister of Thailand who gave the
used to achieve his aim. The results of this study show that most of selected discourses appeared as speech act of promise and the speaker used different ways in order his utterance serve his aim. The concept of "discourse" is a pivotal position in all the research
features for sociologically and critically oriented discourse analysis that distinguish them from the linguistic approach is understanding discourse as both speech and text and also to attaches in the proceedings research importance to the context in which they are played and to draw attention to his processuality. Representatives of the sociological discourse analysis set themselves primarily cognitive targets, representatives of critical discourse analysis treat their studies as a form of social practice
Faculty of Literature and Humanities Department of English Language and Literature Master’s Thesis Developing a Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis (CCDA) Framework for Interaction Analysis in an Iranian EFL Context By: Amin Davoodi Supervisor: Mostafa Hasrati, PhD Advisor: Nouroddin Yousofi, PhD February, 2015 Acknowledgment I would like to express my special appreciation and thanks to all those who contributed to this thesis. First of all, I would like to express my immense gratitude
deviates from the prior discourse in order to facilitate the hearer’s understanding. “[In] everyday conversations they may be more likely to use informal means”, like discourse markers for this purpose (Smith & Jucker 2000: 208). Aijmer (2013: 17) infers from a comparison of various approaches to discourse markers that different models attribute a different number of functions. She further quotes Fisher (2006: 2013) who has synthesized a number of key functions many discourse markers share, namely
techniques of descriptive content analysis with semiology, to make inferences about the studied universe. Content analysis is typically called quantitative as it involves counting and summing phenomena, to even support studies of more qualitative nature. Krippendorff calls it primarily as a symbolic method as it is used to investigate symbolic material, conducting much interpretative works, relying on a good knowledge of the texts under examination. This method of textual analysis is frequently combined with
sequential analysis as practiced in CA can inform us how the participants take their roles in the discourse to provide context. Moreover, the sharp focus on the micro aspects of the interaction produces an in-depth result. Gardner (2008) also illustrated that CA presents the finest detail analysis of talk in interaction. In support to Lee’s view, Huth (2011) also has affirmed that CA has elevated our knowledge with regard to what really happens in the interaction between the language teachers and
Critical discourse analysis is important for deconstructing ideologies. To Widdowson (2000), CDA is a device for uncovering implicit ideologies in texts. It unveils the underlying ideological prejudices and therefore the exercise of power in texts. Little wonder then, Ayoola (2008) opines that most linguistic investigations on power and ideology fall under the aegis of CDA. Further, Jimoh (2012) claims that in CDA, the notions of ideology, power, hierarchy, gender and so on, are considered relevant
CRITICAL REVIEWS ON CORPUS • Corpus Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis: A Case Study on News Reports of the 2011 Libyan Civil War1-Sibo Chen School of Communication, Simon Fraser University This paper reports a comparative analysis of the news coverage of the 2011 Libyan civil war in two national media. The 2011 Libyan civil war attracted wide attention and was extensively covered by various media around the world. However, news discourse regarding the war was constructed differently across various
The syntactic level of language is the foregrounding of information through word order, and the significance can go unnoticed by the audience because the meaning is creatively woven in. Then there is the lexical level of language where the significance is more clearly stated and the meaning is rarely fully unnoticed by the audience. Both of these levels of language can be used in political discourse and be effective. We see the lexical level of language more than the syntactic because of