Study on Approaching Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

Taking Biden’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance in 2021 as a case, this paper discusses the legalization of political discourse with the application of Proximization theory. It is found that Biden made full use of the strategy of spatial, temporal and axiological proximization in the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance to legalize the remediation actions of the United States. Specifically, in terms of spatial proximization, Biden explicitly uses two opposing groups, and focuses on understanding the invasion process and influence of external entities on internal entities in discourse space, so that listeners can get intuitive feelings to ban the legitimacy of the other party’s encroachment. Secondly, in the strategy of temporal proximization, Biden adopted the concept of “coming to the present” and presupposed the threat of external entities to the future, so as to legalize his defense measures. On the axiological proximization, Biden’s government highlights its positive attitude towards external threats, emphasizes its defense of national interests, and strives to enhance the legitimacy of its own actions, so as to create a positive image, provide legal basis for the implementation of its various policies and measures, and thus implement its own foreign policy more easily.