Ideational Meaning Interpersonal Meaning
CHAPTER 4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter presents the key findings of the critical discourse analysis of a set of texts of the first and the second inaugural addresses produced by President Barack Hussein Obama. The chapter aims to analyze the written communication material and to highlight the identification of textual strategies in his addresses. The methodological framework proved particularly well suited to address the complexity of the practice of power performed by Obama as president in gaining the public support to the government objectives in his terms of office. As explained and illustrated in the previous chapter on methodology, Wodaks discourse-historical approach provides the structured method to analyze the inaugural address discourse. The discourse-historical approach of critical discourse analysis focuses on three interrelated dimensions of discourse and heightens an attention on the socio-historical context of the production of discourse.A. Discourse Analysis of Texts
This part will present what is being represented as truths or norms from Obama‘s first and the second inaugural addresses. It can be also seen how those truths and norms are constructed by looking at the evidences of what is seen as problematic and what is not, from foregrounding and backgrounding, and from what are joined and what is kept apart. The addresses were addressed in the inaugural day of the 44 th president of The United States in the U.S Capitol Washington D.C. in 2009 and 2013. They were delivered by President Barrack Obama in front of members of congress and thousand citizens who attended the ceremony and also watched by millions more around the world through mass media. However, the circumstances of these two addresses were not exactly the same since they were delivered in two different times which means that they brought different issues regarding the social political condition each year brought to America. Therefore in this part, the discussion will cover what has been spoken in each paragraph in the first and second inaugural address.1. Discourses in the First Inaugural Address
The first inaugural address is made with a full attention to the social problems and also the international affairs that happen in the last few years. All the issues are described with the intention to raise the alertness of the people to the condition of the country. With the blending of old values, beliefs, and ideology, Obama offers new ways to see the America. He manages the people to hold those shared knowledge of history in enduring the difficulties faced by the country. That means the people should not act outside what is believed as true by the president. There are some emphasis on the notions of Nationality, Pluralism, Utilitarianism, Responsibility, Optimism, and some stress on the importance of Time and Action. However, those values, if held as what the president means, will enable the government to construct the regulation and policies to direct the people to serve the power. The distribution of the values can be seen in table below.Parts
» Research Questions Objectives of the Study
» Ideology Review on Related Theories
» Power Review on Related Theories
» Major Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
» Van Dijk‟s View of Ideologies, Power, Discourse and Language.
» The Grammar of Ideational Meaning: Transitivity
» The Grammar of Interpersonal Meaning: Mood
» The Grammar of Textual Meaning: Theme
» Changes of the Features of Political Speeches through the Time
» Some Features of Analysis of Political Discourse
» Necessary Principles of Analysis of Political Discourse
» The Presence of Power, Ideology and Persuasion in Political Speeches
» Power in America American Political Culture
» Presidential Power in America
» The Ideology of American, the Liberties and Rights
» Profile and the Ideology of Barrack Hussein Obama
» The Recent Issues and Global Challenge faced by American
» Liberty, Freedom, and Equality
» Democracy Review on the Ideologies of America
» Nationalism Review on the Ideologies of America
» Study on President Barack Hussein Obama‟s Address
» Study on Systemic Functional Linguistics
» Study on the Presidents‟ Ideology
» Study on Film‟s Ideology and Domination
» Theoretical framework THEORETICAL REVIEW
» Critical Discourse Analysis Procedures of Data Analysis
» Ideational Meaning Interpersonal Meaning
» Textual Meaning Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis
» Discourses in the First Inaugural Address
» The nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous
» We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we
» That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. 9, IV, a
» But know this America: 19, VI, a 13. They will be met. 20, VI, a
» Well restore science to its rightful place, and wield technologys wonders
» What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted
» Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for
» And for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and
» To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect
» To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the
» Our challenges may be new. 93, XXVI, a
» This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed, why men and women
» Discourses in the Second Inaugural Address
» We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would
» That‘s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared
» For history tells us that while these truths may be self-
» The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with
» Our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work
» Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation and one people. 21, IX, a
» A decade of war is now ending. 23, X, b 19. An economic recovery has begun. 24, X, b
» The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid
» They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks
» We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the
» Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of
» You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our
» Comparison of Obama‟s First and Second Address
» The Presented Norms as Truth and the Intended Society‟s Behavior
» The Mobilized Interests and the Potential Power Abuse
» Material Process Ideational Function
» Mental Process Ideational Function
» Relational Process ―For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed
» And so, to all the other peoples and governments who are watching
» But the words I spoke today are not so different from the oath that is
» For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. 43, XII, a
» Personal and Possessive Pronoun
» Textual Theme Textual Function
» Interpersonal Theme Textual Function
» Circumstantial Adjunct as Marked Theme
» Political Interest and the Potential Power Abuse
» Representing and Reshaping Reality
» Establishing Social Relation Language as the Representation of the Ideology and Power
» Framing the Political Message
» Suggestion CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
» First Inaugural Address of Obama in 2009
» Second Inaugural Address of Obama in 2013
» What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility
» We are shaped by every language and culture
» They gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for the
» We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect. XXIII We must act
» Being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every
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