Abstract
The present study reports on the latest and newest hot topic in the world, the United States Presidential Election. So, this is the newest attempt to explore and discover interrelation of discourse structures and ideological structures of Donald Trump’s acceptance speech in the United States Presidential Election, 2016 as a good sample of his language use in presidential campaign. In so doing, the current study utilizes Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) model to unmask the use of power and hidden strategies through language use. Also we analyze and uncover the experiential, relational and expressive values of the wordings, metaphors and grammatical structures of Trump’s language use. Furthermore, this study tries to show that there are linguistic traces that depict the strategy and ideology in the text as well. The findings of the present study can be provocative for English foreign language learners to promote their analytical skills. Therefore, findings of the present article can be applied to English Reading Comprehension and Reading Journalistic Texts classes.
Highlights
1.1 Critical Discourse AnalysisCritical discourse analysis (CDA) is a multidisciplinary approach to discourse that emphasizes on language as “a form of social practice” (Fairclough, 1995, 2010)
According to the above figure, CDA approach focuses on three dimensions of discourse: text, discourse practice and socio-cultural practice. These three dimensions will be analyzed in three processes of analysis which are: description, interpretation, and explanation. 1.4 The Ten-Question Model (Fairclough, 1996) For text analysis on the level of description, Fairclough (1996) presents the ten-question model to analyze the text to reveal the covered meaning implies in the language used
A descriptive-analytic method of research based on critical discourse analysis model presented by Norman Fairclough (1989, 1995, 2001 & 2010) and the ten-question model of Norman Fairclough (1996) and van Dijk’s ideological discourse analysis framework (2004) were utilized throughout the current study to find out the answers of the research questions
Summary
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a multidisciplinary approach to discourse that emphasizes on language as “a form of social practice” (Fairclough, 1995, 2010). CDA generally indicates that social practice and linguistic practice have a significant impact on each other and emphasizes on this fact that how societal power relations are constructed and reinforced through language use (Fairclough, 1995, 2010). Norman Fairclough as the most prominent linguist at Lancaster school, developed and offered different models for text analysis based on CDA. In other words: Critical discourse analysis is a contemporary approach to the study of language and discourses in social institutions. Drawing on poststructuralist discourse theory and critical linguistics, it focuses on how social relations, identity, knowledge and power are constructed through written and spoken texts in communities, schools and classrooms (Luke A., 2000, introduction)
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