International organizations tend to reflect the most powerful states’ interests. Even though realists, of course recognize that TAs have an influence, it is neglectable compared to the one of states. The opposite approach is the one of the liberalists. They have a far less pessimistic view of world politics. This vision is laid out in Kant’s Perpetual Peace, where democratic states, thanks to international institutions and trade can cooperate peacefully. Liberalists, therefore leave space for political manoeuvre
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
“A Great People has been moved to defend a Great Nation” On September 11th, 2001 terrorists associated with Al Qaeda and led by Osama Bin Laden attacked the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon building in Washington D.C. Later the same day at 8:30 in the evening, President George W. Bush addressed the nation. The speech lasted five minutes and addressed a defining moment in history as well as in President Bush’s administration. The address was President Bush’s reaction to the terrorist
On the other hand, common 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
American cultural movements. All the types of cultural knowledge that successful MCs have is also discussed in this chapter and Morgan explains how authentic members criticise that knowledge. Lastly, the chapter contains a thorough discussion of the discursive strategies and grammatical areas of hip hop, showing the different ways in which participants of hip hop use creative language to construct a social identity and
The Cold War was a hostile period in which the Western and Eastern Blocs engaged in an international power struggle, vying for ideological domination. The two superpowers- the United States and the USSR- did not engage directly in battle, yet began a dangerous race of nuclear proliferation in preparation for what was thought to be an imminent nuclear war (Kalinovsky and Daigle, 2014). As Lebow (1996) states, these events have been ‘ widely recognized to have ushered in a new era in international
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
study is concerned with the aspects of text production and interpretation. Hence, this study includes the detailed explication of how the stakeholders produce and interpret texts. The analysis focuses on the relationship of the discursive event, and upon which the discursive practices are being drawn upon and in what combinations (Fairclough, 1995:134) in relation to the model. The Islamic perspective is an important part of the research study in the endeavour to understand the concept of Islamic advertising
and translation studies. Chuback’s works, from rise to his demise, is introduced and the aesthetic and stylistic nature of his writing is scoured in detail. Literarily, discursive practices in his writing will especially be dealt with and ideological and kaleidoscopic panoramas of his writing brought into focus. Keywords: Discursive practices, language, content and style, naturalism, aestheticism Introduction Sadeq Chubak, (August 5, 1916- July 3, 1998), the author of short fiction, drama, novels