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
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
Introduction This article focusses on a critical discourse analysis of the first inaugural address by Abraham Lincoln and the first inaugural address by Barack Obama on properties of discursive manipulation; including lexical, macro details, and grammatical elements. The rhetorical styles used by both presidents in their Addresses unquestionably influenced their degrees of success in achieving their political goals. Additionally political discourse is especially interesting to look at for this
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
will delve into the societal representations which the global media portray, through dominant discourses that help to frame and define our social understandings, opinions and attitudes of the world we live in. An emphasis will be shown on the effect these discourses have on our interpretations of people from other cultures, as well as people of another gender, or social position. These damaging discourses can serve to negatively affect sections of society by almost demonizing them by creating an ‘othering’
Introduction & Text Selection Discourse (or textual) analysis refers to a broad spectrum of methodologies within the field of applied linguistics that aim to evaluate the functional use of language in a fuller textual, social and psychological context. The application of these various techniques allows researchers to better understand how individuals and groups interpret the world around them via their use of language. In short, the analysis of text allows us to look ‘beyond the sentence’ (Thornbury
the analysis section. The analysis mainly looks into the interactional strategies and the underlying power mechanism and the involvement of contextual factors in the compliance and non-compliance conversation and how it influences the therapeutic relationship. In the interactional level, the analysis looked at how compliance and noncompliance are managed in the interaction and the interactional strategies positively or negatively influence in creating the therapeutic relationship. For example, what
are no exception to this ideological position. However, development of market segmentation techniques now has led marketing professionals to focus on the more profitable and high income segment to the exclusion of the poor in many sectors citing example of the of subaltern consumers, Verman & Belk acknowledge that these groups are infact at the margins of consumption markets with limited participation in exchange relationships. However, consumer culture as is evident amongst the urban elite is also
Homosexuality in sport: A critical analysis of the prevalence of homophobia within elite male football Introduction This essay will offer a critical evaluation regarding the prevalence of homophobia within the field of male professional football, as well as discussing what is being done to combat this issue. This paper will look to provide the argument that homophobic attitudes remain within modern day elite football despite how the issue is being challenged. This claim will look to be substantiated
is "stratification", such us that language is analysed in terms of semantics, context, lexico-grammar and phonology-Graphology. The context focuses on three kinds. They are field, tenor and mode. Field deeps on what the text is taking about, for example "medicine, education or science". Tenor is the relationship between participants. It is the power of relation. It shows the equality and inequality relation. Also, if there is closeness or formality. The last kind of the context is the mode. It is