President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s Political Speeches: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 8
Abstract
Politics is a struggle for power in order to put specific political, economic and social ideas into practice that is crucially played by language.The general purpose of this qualitative study employing critical discourse analysis was to examine the political speeches in terms of linguistic features, rhetorical strategies and uncovering the issues behind these discourses of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.The corpora comprised of thirty political speeches that were retrieved in an online archive and hard copies that were furnished in the office of the President. Findings revealed that the linguistic features are personal pronouns that show inclusivity and exclusivity. Passivity, transitivity and the dominating verb tenses and aspects are also evident. The use of loaded, dramatic, and stereotyping adjectives, adverbs and nouns are central to the construction of an event, the use of non-hedged adverbs position a contention as being incontrovertible „fact‟, presupposition, rhetorical questions, ellipsis and Intertextuality were also utilized. The recurring issues in his political speeches are centered on socio-economic, legal and political but War on Drugs, Criminality, Graft and Corruption are highlighted. The President who is the highest official of the land is expected to lead the country in a crusade to alleviate the condition of the constituents and to provide fast solution to these prevailing issues and problems.
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Roxan Rubic-Remorosa Phd
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