Nationalism Review on the Ideologies of America
1. Study on President Barack Hussein Obama‟s Address
The critical discourse study which has been done on the similar topic is entitled, A Criti cal Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama’s Addresses by Junling Wang. She is from the School of Foreign Languages, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China. She shows that the Critical Discourse Analysis is applicable to analyze political discourse including the public address, in which the speaker wins favorite response from the audience. She bases her writing on Critical Discourse Analysis theory and Systematic Functional Linguistics. She analyzes Barack Obama‘s presidential addresses mainly from the point oftransitivity and modality. In the analysis, she proves that language is a way to serve the ideology and power. She reveals also the political purpose of these addresses. In the conclusion part, she finds that Obama‘s address are structured in a such way to shorten the distance between him and the audience, to have the audience understand and accept his political and to persuade the public to accept and support his policies. The text of the address as data source leads to theses significances from the structure of the language itself. The address may employ colloquial words and short sentences instead of the complicated structures. From transitivity analysis, it applies on process of doing. Modality is analyzed to refer to a speaker‘s attitudes towards or opinion about the truth of a proposition expressed by a sentence. Wang‘s study develops the same approach to what the writer is going to use in this study. The transitivity analysis is then proven to be a useful device in Critical Discourse Analysis to collect and categorize the language items that are put in the text to make meaning. However in this study, the writer is going to have a deeper analysis on the relation among the language, discourse, power, and political importance behind two transcribed address. It does not only work on the first inaugural address but also the second inaugural address by President Barack Hussein Obama to see any different issues built in particular structure of language and later on is to find the development of Obama‘s ideology. What makes this Wang‘s study different from this thesis is that here the writer is trying to see the development of ideology of the President throughout the first term of office.2. Study on Systemic Functional Linguistics
A writing on the similar topic is reviewed because it prove that Systemic Functional Grammar developed by M. A. K. Halliday since 1960s is suitable language analysis tools for Critical Discourse Analysis. It is entitled Role Prescriptions, Social Practices, and Social Structures: A Sociological Basis for the Contextualization of Analysis in SFL and CDA written by José Luiz Meurer. This paper is taken from papers collection in Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis compiled by Lynne Young and Claire Harrison. In the paper, Meurer explores some theories and finds the relevance among them in language study and society. It puts the concern in both SFL and CDA as a method to establish clear relationship between language and context. ―I suggest that SFL and CDA may incorporate the term chains of practices and explore the way every social practice interrelates with other social practices within larger social structures. This inter dependence may be captured by the notion of inter -contextuality; as different practices are carried out, inter dependent social structures and, thus, contexts, may be implicated.‖ Meurer, 2004: 89Parts
» 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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