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This article explores how President-elect Joe Biden used the rhetoric of political language in his inauguration speech as an attempt to showcase his policy plans as well as his political views on the American political scene. This article also looks at how each of the political messages in his inauguration speech shows the ideology and power that Joe Biden believes in. To provide comprehensive details about the elements of Joe Biden’s inauguration speech, the researchers use Norman Fairclough’s idea to view continuing social practice via the prisms of text, discourse practice, and the sociocultural practice that underpins the text, or to view the underlying reality that gave rise to the discourse

Highlights

  • Political speeches delivered during the presidential inauguration ceremony are a significant aspect of a larger political phenomenon

  • This study examines Joe Biden's inaugural speech to see how power and ideology play out in p-ISSN: 2252-6323 e-ISSN: 2721-4540

  • Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) makes an attempt with this characteristic to reveal the concealed interpretation of an ideology embedded in a particular discourse

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Political speeches delivered during the presidential inauguration ceremony are a significant aspect of a larger political phenomenon. Inaugural addresses are one of the most powerful tools for influencing public opinion. The inaugural address serves a significant role and has a significant impact as political discourse. Language plays a critical role in politics because, in addition to serving as a means of communication, it can help shape the speaker's image in the eyes of the public who receives the message In this regard, Chen (2018) in Jegede (2020) said that the impact of political speeches, especially the American president, has a very large influence on domestic and international political policies

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