INTERPERSONAL FUNCTION OF AMERICAN POLITICAL SPEECH (SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS APPROACH)
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Interpersonal function, speech, and SFL
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This study is concerned with the interpersonal function analysis of American political speech text, by taking an example of first Obama's victory speech, based on Systemic Functional Linguistics theory (SFL). The speech text was modified into clauses which were subsequently analyzed in accordance with the goal of the analysis. The study revealed that the speech established an intimate relationship and a close distance with the audience which enables speaker to gain support and exchange information through the use of linguistics resources that are declarative clause in the mood structure, modality, and pronoun "we". This study has a great impact on language teaching and learning in terms of maintaining social relationships and exchanging meanings between teachers and students during their interactions in the classroom by taking into account the link between linguistic resources and the nature of text both spoken and written.
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Fetzer, A., & Bull, P. (2012). Doing leadership in political speech : Semantic processes and pragmatic inferences. Discourse & Society, 23(2), 127–144. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926511431510
Hopke, J. E., & Simis, M. (2016). Response to ‘ Word choice as political speech ’: Hydraulic fracturing is a partisan issue. Public Understanding of Science, 26(1), 124–126. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662516643621
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Horváth, J. (2005). Critical Discourse Analysis of Obama ’s Political Discourse. Language, literature and culture in a changing 45–56.
Kelly, C. R. (2020). Donald J . Trump and the rhetoric of ressentiment. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 106(1), 2–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2019.1698756
Martin, J.R. 1992. English Text: System and Structure, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Matthiessen, C. 1990. Lexico Grammatical Cartography: English Systems. Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney: Miemo.
Moragas-fernández, C. M., Calvo, M. M., & Capdevila, A. (2018). The process en route: the metaphor of the journey as the dominant narrative for the political discourse in Catalonia. Critical Discourse Studies, 15(5), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2018.1468787
Nartey, M. (2018). ‘ I shall prosecute a ruthless war on these monsters … ’: a critical metaphor analysis of discourse of resistance in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah. Critical Discourse Studies, 16(2), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2018.1535987
Schubert, C. (2019). ‘ OK , well , first of all , let me say …’: Discursive uses of response initiators in US presidential primary debates. Discourse Studies, 21(4), 438–457. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445619842734
Schumacher, G., Hansen, D., Velden, M. A. C. G. Van Der, & Kunst, S. (2019). A new dataset of Dutch and Danish party congress speeches. Research and Politics, 6(2), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168019838352
Silke, H., Quinn, F., & Rieder, M. (2019). Telling the truth about power ? Journalism discourses and the facilitation of inequality. Critical Discourse Studies, 16(3), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2019.1568897
Stubbs, M. 1983. Discourse Analysis: The Sociolinguistic Analysis of Natural Language. University of Chicago.
Wang, J. (2010). A Critical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama s Speeches. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 1(3), 254–261. https://doi.org/10.4304/jltr.1.3.254-261
Zhan, H., & Huang, S. (2018). Critical genre analysis : investigating interdiscursive performance in professional practice. Critical Discourse Studies, 15(5), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2018.1468788
Published
2022-09-23
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Canggung Darong, H. (2022). INTERPERSONAL FUNCTION OF AMERICAN POLITICAL SPEECH (SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS APPROACH) . IJOTL-TL: Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics, 7(1), 58-71. https://doi.org/10.30957/ijoltl.v7i1.626
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