Abstract
The US election is an influential event, not just in the USA itself but in the world. The present study aims to analyze Joe Biden’s inauguration speech after winning the presidential election in January 2021 and becoming the 46th president of the United States. Moreover, this paper attempts to investigate the USA’s possible policies toward their own nation and, of course, the other countries. This analysis goes through predicting probable upcoming policies of Biden’s administration comparing to the previous president of the USA, Donald Trump, who breached several international agreements. To this end, Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) (Halliday, 1978; Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014) has been employed in Biden’s first speech after winning the election and beginning of the democratic administration to observe his political intentions by means of a critical approach and using appraisal resources of Martin and White (2007) to clarify the attitude, graduation, and engagement of his speech. Overall, designating the number of vocabularies related to any of the mentioned appraisal resources, it is concluded that Biden’s tendency, based on his inauguration speech and the lexical and grammatical (‘lexicogrammar) choices, is to compensate Trump’s actions, such as breaching 2015 JCPOA agreement and breaking 2015 Paris Climate Accord, and make peace with whom Trump had fueled conflicts.
Highlights
The utterances of the US presidents have always been of significant importance and investigated by other nations’ authorities
As the name itself implies, Systemic Functional Linguistics goes under the functional theories wherein the purpose of the produced texts is to serve specific goals
Winning the presidential election in January 2020, Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States of America
Summary
The utterances of the US presidents have always been of significant importance and investigated by other nations’ authorities. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), as illustrated in Norman Fairclough (2010), aims to find the possible relations between the entities (people, objects, or concepts) in a group. After Donald Trump took the administration, everything went through deep changes and here is the point where fueled the importance of Joe Biden’s win in the presidential election and, unraveling his inauguration speech. To this end, in the following, first and foremost, SFL and its elements will be discussed
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