Abstract
This paper is a critical discourse analysis of the 2018 (SONA)- State of the Nation Address delivered by Ghana’s president, Nana Akuffo-Addo. Using van Dijk’s (2004) ideological strategies, the study investigates how the president tries to justify his government’s ideas and persuades his audience by utilizing subtle ideological discourse structures in his speech. The text used in the study is the whole of the 2018 state of the nation address obtained from www.my joy online.org. The study employs content analysis for analysing the data. The major ideological strategies employed have been positive self-representation and in-group favouritism supported by minor ideological strategies while projecting past opponent governments negatively.
 
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This study is an attempt to critically study the underlying ideologies behind president Nana Addo of Ghana’s state of the nation address in order to show a better understanding of the political purpose of that speech.Copyright © The Author(s)
This paper aims to identify the ideological strategies within the discourse structures in the 2018 state of the nation address delivered by President Nana Addo of Ghana
This paper adopts Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as an aid to discover the underlying ideologies behind the 2018 state of the nation address delivered by president Nana Ado
Summary
PRESIDENT NANA AKUFFO ADDO’S 2018 STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS field for power struggle, and that politicians engage in the struggle for power in order to implement their political, economic, and social ideas. To this end, in the field of politics, language plays a crucial role; politicians use language as a vital tool to shape the political thoughts of the electorates and to convince them to buy into their ideologies (Bayram ibid). This paper aims to identify the ideological strategies within the discourse structures in the 2018 state of the nation address delivered by President Nana Addo of Ghana. The point that has to be tested is how the speech follows the postulates of the “ideological square” as presented by van Dijk (2004)
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