Speech Discourse Research Articles

Interwoven ecological metaphors in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s 7th March 1971 speech discourse: An eco-critical exegesis

Interwoven ecological metaphors in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s 7th March 1971 speech discourse: An eco-critical exegesis

A Study of the Interpersonal Function of Feminist Speech Discourse Based on the Anne Hathaway’s Speech in B20 Summit

A Study of the Interpersonal Function of Feminist Speech Discourse Based on the Anne Hathaway’s Speech in B20 Summit

Linguistic and Extralinguistic Characteristics of the Processes of Terminologization and Determinologization

The article examines the linguistic and extralinguistic characteristics of the processes of terminologization and determinologization, the peculiarities of the use of terms in professional language. The greatest influence of linguistic and extralinguistic factors on the development and change of the language as a whole. While extralinguistic factors depend on a certain historical period, linguistic factors constantly act in the same way and continuously. The political and social phenomena that took place in the last century formed the basis of the changes that arose in the lexical system of the Kazakh language, which set the task of responding quickly and adequately to the new needs of society. Most of the terms came out of special use and began to be mastered in the general literary language, and some words of a general nature began to be used in terminological meaning. Thus, we see that due to the loss of terms of their terminality and their transition to the sphere of universal interests, a person is mobilized in a priority position in the sphere of professional and socio-political, economic interests and depends on the new modern processes in question. This circumstance has had the greatest impact on the linguistic space of mass media, fiction and speech discourse, which is the most active medium for the use of words of a universal nature. The beginning of use in a different environment has a significant impact on the terminological meaning of linguistic unity and, therefore, serves as the basis for the formation of new patterns of development of these units. The analysis and description of these separately determine the relevance of the issue received in the paper as an object. The relevance of the study of terminology, terminological processes, etc. is due to the special rate of increase in the flow of scientific and industrial information.

Study on the Effectiveness of Commitment Speech Act from the Perspective of Force Dynamics Theory

Commitment speech acts play an important role in various fields, but compared to other speech acts, they have not yet received sufficient attention. In political discourse, the implementation frequency of commitment speech acts is quite high, while their usage characteristics, pragmatic strategies, and the influence of social domain factors still need to be explored. The correct implementation of commitment speech acts is helpful to achieve the purpose of communication and promote the success of communication. Therefore, based on Talmy’s force-dynamic theory, this paper collects relevant language materials of commitment speech acts contained in British Prime Minister’s “Brexit” political speech discourse, attempts to consider pragmatic factors on the basis of the force-dynamics model to construct force dynamics models about commitment speech acts for analysis. By analyzing the working mechanism between internal and external parameters in force dynamic schema under different promise strategies, this paper explores the action mode of “illocutionary force” in speech acts of commitment and the implementation path of commissives under the influence of social domain factors and other factors. This paper interprets commitment speech act from the cognitive perspective, expecting to broaden the research paradigm of commitment speech acts and provide ideas for future multi-dimensional study on speech act theory.

The Semantic Analysis of Joko Widodo’s Speech on Youtube

In this research, there are several expressions of words that are grammatically used in semantic meaning in Joko Widodo's speech discourse. The data analysis technique used is qualitative descriptive analysis from 10 data on the title Jokowi speech on YouTube and obtained from the observation method. In its disclosure, five types of semantic meaning have been found, namely conceptual meaning, connotative meaning, social meaning, effective meaning and thematic meaning. The type of meaning that is often found is conceptual meaning (38.20%). To follow the flow in a speech script, we can analyze the semantic meaning in it. A speech is a formal presentation given to the audience. A speaker can deliver a good speech as long as the speaker focuses on his goal and tries to convey the goal in the minds of the audience. But sometimes the audience cannot understand what the speaker is saying. In this case, semantic meaning and speech are important things to be researched and studied in depth when applied to social linguistics.

Islamic Ideology in a Training Session of Insurance Agents: Critical Discourse Analysis

Research on insurance has been conducted by economists and experts within the finance and business fields. However, recently the study pertaining to insurance has garnered interest from diverese fields, namely sociology, socio-legal studies and criminology. There are very limited study examining insurance from a sociological perspective involves exploring how social, economic and cultural elements interconnect with various contextual factors. Most studies within the domain of insurance focused on insurance organisations or agencies, only a limited number of studies have focused on the analysis of agents and clients interaction. This study aims to analyse and uncover the ideology behind the use of Islamic ideology by an insurance leader during a sharing session. A qualitative case study was conducted and an insurance leader’s verbal speech was transcribed during a sharing session and went through discourse analysis. The transcribed script was analysed using thematic analysis. Based on the findings, it could be concluded that Islamic ideology was included in the insurance leader’s speech discourse which was associated to the divinity ideology. Divinity ideology refers to the shared belief among all Muslims that worshipping God is an essential commitment that must never be compromised. It was found that there were two types of divinity ideology which were the duty as believers and the principal belief of Islam. To sum up, this study has involved an insurance leader’s discourse which can be further investigated in various ways in future by exploring strategies, power and ideology in the insurance leaders’ discourse.

The weaponisation of free speech under the Morrison government

ABSTRACT In recent years, the concept of ‘free speech’ appears to have reached a position of significant prominence in public debate. In this context, we ask how the concept of free speech was used discursively by the Morrison-led government. Utilising a political discourse analytic approach, and examining texts from 2019 to 2021, we argue that, and show how, the government engaged in multiple discourses around free speech that were incompatible, inconsistent and incoherent. These inconsistencies and discontinuities were so significant as to render this a ‘weaponisation’ of free speech discourse. Thus, the article both reveals the complexities of the Morrison government’s discursive positioning of free speech, and renders sensible the otherwise nonsensical way in which ‘free speech’ was used to garner support for a range of public policies.

The Construction of Pragmatic Identity in Political Speech Discourse -- Taking the Keynote Speech by Xi Jinping at the Opening Ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022 as an Example

Pragmatic identity construction is conducive to achieving communicative purposes. And political discourse is an effective means of promoting international communication. While the construction of identity in the field of pragmatics is rarely discussed in political discourse. To better understand the political intention of speakers, the research explores how and what pragmatic identities are constructed in political discourse based on pragmatic identity theory, and takes the Keynote Speech by Xi Jinping at the Opening Ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022 as corpus. It is found that this speech included many derived identities from pragmatic identities. And President Xi Jinping chooses and exchanges his derived identities from various pragmatic identities by using the strategies of the personal pronoun and linguistic adaptation theory, which helps him better switch his pragmatic identity and achieve his interpersonal functions or political functions.

Transivitas dalam Pidato Nadiem Makarim pada Peringatan Hari Guru Nasional 2021

Transivity in Nadiem Makarim's Speech on the 2021 National Teacher's Day Commemoration This study aims to reveal the participants involved in the discourse (transivity) of Nadiem Makarim's speech on the 2021 National Teacher's Day commemoration. This research is a type of qualitative research. The data source for this research was obtained from Nadiem Makarim's speech text on the 2021 National Teacher's Day Commemoration, which was downloaded from the website www.youtube.com. The theory used is the Systemic Functional Linguistics (LSF) theory pioneered by Halliday. Data collection methods and techniques used are observation methods with note-taking techniques. The method of presenting the results of the data analysis used applies to the presentation of all forms of conversation in the research in the form of descriptions of words, phrases, groups of phrases, clauses, and texts. The results of the study show that the transivity in the speech text of Nadiem Makarim's Speech on the Commemoration of National Teacher's Day 2021 occurs through four processes. The four processes are material processes, mental processes, relational processes, and verbal processes; no behavioral or form processes are found. The four processes bind their respective participants and label these participants based on the processes that occur.

Exploring the Persuasive Function of Metaphorical Proximization Mechanism in Speech Discourse

Exploring the Persuasive Function of Metaphorical Proximization Mechanism in Speech Discourse

Личностные предикторы профессиональной продуктивности педагогов дошкольного образования

The article presents the results of the study of the correlation between professional efficiency of preschool teachers and their creativity and values. The structure of educators’ professional efficiency has been characterized, the criteria of its expert assessment have been provided. 50 educators of municipal preschools and 9 experts took part in the research. The study has revealed that cognitive and aesthetic components of efficiency are higher among educators with a more pronounced level of creativity. At the same time, verbal creativity is in negative correlation with a communication component of efficiency, which is explained by professional growth of a preschool teacher in child speech discourse. The findings show that educator’s values are the factor related to the cognitive component of his or her professional efficiency and their contribution to preschool teachers’ performance indicators is significant.

REPRESENTATION OF POWER AND IDEOLOGY ON JOKOWI'S SPEECH

A speech reflects the power and ideology of the communicator when it is delivered. It also has the representation of the social and political situation at the time it is delivered. The speech is about the successful handling of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the initial success of economic recovery among ASEAN countries. This research intends to open a new understanding of a speech discourse. A speech discourse can carry many meanings that are packaged in the representation of the power and ideology of the communicator. Having the ability to read the meaning behind a speech is an advance in building a civil society. The representation were analyzed through three level of analysis of critical discourse analysis. The first is to analyze text with features associated with the text as-a-whole, the second is to analyze text with features related to text at the sentence level and word level, and the third is to analyze the findings through contextual interpretation. The result of this speech analysis shows that Jokowi’s speech has represented the power of Indonesia as the next leader of ASEAN Chair in 2023 and the ideology of Indonesia to develop together with other Southeast Asia countries in ASEAN.

Search Engines and Free Speech: A Historical Analysis of Editorial Analogies and the Position of Media Companies and Users in US Free Speech Discourse

This article analyzes current debates over search engine regulation and free speech. In these debates, Google and other companies have relied on the “editorial analogy”: that search results are equivalent to editorial decisions, and thus cannot be regulated without violating freedom of speech. These debates largely focus on analogies to earlier media or the nature of algorithmic judgment. The paper argues that this framing misses key issues relevant to how we think about search engines (and algorithmic decisions in general) and freedom of speech. The paper examines the free speech debates that surrounded media in the 1930s and 1940s in order to: (1) clarify the stakes and politics of the editorial analogy being used today; (2) offer an alternate framing of the debate, that highlights conflicts of expressive interest and asks what it means to participate in the public sphere under conditions of rapid technological and political economic transition.

Fatigue Detection of Air Traffic Controllers Based on Radiotelephony Communications and Self-Adaption Quantum Genetic Algorithm Optimization Ensemble Learning

Air traffic controller (ATC) fatigue has become a major cause of air traffic accidents. Speech-based fatigue-state detection is proposed in this paper. The speech signal is preprocessed to further extract the Mel frequency cepstrum coefficient (MFCC) from speech discourse. The machine learning method is used in fatigue detection. However, single machine learning fatigue detection methods often have low detection accuracy. To solve this problem, an ensemble learning method based on self-adaption quantum genetic algorithm (SQGA) heterogeneous learning methods is proposed. Pattern-level and feature-level resampling are used to increase the differences in the base learner’s training dataset. To enlarge the diversity of single learners, k-nearest neighbor (KNN), Bayesian network (BN), back propagation neural network (BPNN) and support vector machine (SVM) are adopted for the heterogeneous ensemble. On this basis, finally, the detection result is obtained by weighted summation. The weight of each base learner was determined by SQGA. The SQGA method combines the quantum genetic algorithm with the adaptive strategy. The adaptive strategy includes adaptive adjustment of the quantum rotation gate, adaptive generation of crossover probability and adaptive generation of mutation probability. The experiments on real civil aviation radio land–air communication show that the proposed method can obtain 98.5% detection accuracy, with a 1.2% false and 3.0% missing report rate, whereas the SVM only obtains 94.0% detection accuracy, with a 5.4% false and 9.0% missing report rate.

The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study

Freedom of speech has long been considered an essential value in democracies. However, its boundaries concerning hate speech continue to be contested across many social and political spheres, including governments, social media websites, and university campuses. Despite the recent growth of so-called free speech communities online and offline, little empirical research has examined how individuals embedded in these communities make moral sense of free speech and its limits. Examining these perspectives is important for understanding the growing involvement and polarization around this issue. Using a digital ethnographic approach, I address this gap by analyzing discussions in a rapidly growing online forum dedicated to free speech (r/FreeSpeech subreddit). I find that most users on the forum understand free speech in an absolutist sense (i.e., it should be free from legal, institutional, material, and even social censorship or consequences), but that users differ in their arguments and justifications concerning hate speech. Some downplay the harms of hate speech, while others acknowledge its harms but either focus on its epistemic subjectivity or on the moral threats of censorship and authoritarianism. Further, the forum appears to have become more polarized and right-wing-dominated over time, rife with ideological tensions between members and between moderators and members. Overall, this study highlights the variation in free speech discourse within online spaces and calls for further research on free speech that focuses on first-hand perspectives.

Interactional discourse of male and female motivational speech in TED Talks: A corpus-based study

TED talks are known for highlighting the speaker’s affective responses to the topic and encouraging the audience to engage along that lead to a great number of interactive functions of discourse markers and features. Thus, the writer is interested in analyzing the interactional discourse markers used in motivational speech in TED talks by comparing the difference between male and female speakers. The data consists of two corpora of TED motivational speeches delivered by male and female speakers with the total of 43160 tokens of female speaker corpus and 51873 tokens of male speaker corpus. The data is analyzed by using Hyland’s stance and engagement features to identify both speakers and audience point of view in the speech. The findings show that female speakers tend to use more of both stance and engagement features than male speakers. It is shown that female speakers tend to be more expressive in composing their speech in order to create an impressive and communicative presentation. Meanwhile, male speakers tend to use more explicit and direct markers in their speech to engage with the audience and focus on delivering the topic and material instead.

An Ecological Discourse Analysis of COVID-19 Speech by Dr Tedros on World Health Organization YouTube Channel

Ecological crisis increases into the biggest current issue since COVID-19 pandemic hit the world. The awareness and perception about the relationships between environment and other organisms has moved slowly. Meantime, the ecological terminology is developing as extraordinary topic to discuss in all aspects because has had a major effect on our live. As a new transdisciplinary paradigm formed by the combination of ecology and linguistics, ecolinguistics principally studies the influence of language use on human beings, nature and other organisms. This paper essentially uses transitivity of systemic functional linguistics theory proposed by Halliday to analyze the ecological discourse of COVID-19 speech by Dr Tedros in World Health Organization (WHO) YouTube Channel. Therefore, the ecological philosophy of this paper explores from the theory of Ecological Philosophy that addresses our understanding, as part of the environment in which we live, and how we learn and act on environmental issues. Present research employed qualitative, descriptive method containing observation. Results revealed ecological discourse analysis of transitivity system theory can be used in shedding light on use of language in this speech to invigorate the perception by understanding based on the three ecologies, there are environment, social relations and human (mental) subjectivity. Furthermore, on mood system analysis, this speech consists of larger number of declarative moods and some interrogative moods. In summarization, finding of current study will deliver a theoretical foundation of ecological discourse analysis for future researchers in the field.

The Linguistic Practices in Social Media in the Algerian Context: between Human Relations Reinforcement and Hate Speech Proliferation

The current study is an attempt to address some of the issues surrounding social media use with more emphasis on their role in reinforcing human relationships and spreading hatred speech. For the sake of presenting a comprehensive overview of the issue, a blend of quantitative and qualitative methodologies was implemented in the present study to analyse presence and incidence of hate speech and friendly relationship discourse in social media. To embark on such endeavour, a mixed- method, encompassing both a questionnaire and corpus analysis, is adopted. The targeted sample of the questionnaire’s addressees consists of social media users (n=100) from different categories of people. The second tool comprises a set of messages, comments and posts that are collected from different social media, especially Facebook. The findings revealed that hate speech, based on ethnicity, race, tribe, skin color, religion and physical appearance, is becoming prevalent among social media users, surpassing the spread of human relationships.

Снова о «жанрах речи и языке речи»: что дала жанроведению лингвистика?

This is the second article in a cycle on the connection between genre studies and linguistics. The previous article discussed the question “What have genre studies given to linguistics?” This article focuses on linguistic methods used in speech genres theory: more traditional for linguistics, starting with the descriptive method and its later varieties – structural – and less traditional (component analysis, the method of immediate constituents, the generative method, the method of describing external and deep content structures, the method of semantic fields). Speech genres theory is studied in relation to linguistic paradigms. The most significant for speech genres theory is the turn in linguistics from the study of the language only to the study of speech (discourse), and thus – the recognition of the presence of a specific systematic nature of speech. Besides, speech genres theory is analyzed in connection with traditional linguistic directions: syntactic theory and methodology are used in the study of the composition of speech genres, lexicology and semantics – in the study of the names of speech genres. The major focus is on the modern period when new areas of linguistics and speech genres theory emerge simultaneously (Internet linguistics and Internet genre studies). The article also discusses division of linguistic disciplines in connection both with the speech genre division of language (structural, diachronic, functional) and with the division of genre studies (structure of the speech genres, classification of speech genres, sociology of speech genres, psychology of speech genres and genre thinking, cognitive and culturological aspects of speech genres). The role of speech genres theory in the division of linguistic disciplines into deductive and inductive is also discussed. The article appreciates the role of several outstanding linguists in the development of speech genres theory. In addition, the author briefly touches upon the connection between genre studies and literary studies: in the study of literary texts and genres they converge.

Perception of Pediatric Oncological Patients and Their Parents/Guardians about a Hospital Oral Health Program: A Qualitative Study

Background:The oral healthcare offered to pediatric cancer patients at the hospital level must include educational and preventive strategies based on dialogical and welcoming professional attitudes. Therefore, the current study aimed to evaluate the perception of pediatric cancer patients and their parents/guardians about an educational and preventive oral healthcare program implemented in a reference hospital for cancer treatment. Methods:A qualitative follow-up investigation was conducted in which we evaluated the perception of pediatric cancer patients and their parents/guardians regarding an educational and preventive oral health program (OHEPP). The participants were 27 children and adolescents undergoing cancer treatment and their parents/guardians, and the assessment was carried out at 15 and 30 days after beginning the program through semi-structured interviews. The program used audiovisual resources, storytelling and playful instruments for the oral health education of patients and parents/guardians. The interviews were then transcribed and the Discourse of the Collective Speech (DCS) technique was performed for data analysis. Results:Patients and parents/guardians reported improvement in oral hygiene habits and conditions. Patients reported greater enthusiasm for oral care and highlighted the recreational aspect of the program. Parents/guardians reported being more clear about oral changes and paying attention to the appearance of comorbidities resulting from anticancer treatment. Conclusions:This study suggests that implementation of the oral health program favored communication between health professionals, patients and their parents/guardians, expanding knowledge and generating behavior change in oral healthcare.