Inaugural Address Research Articles

Persuasive agenda-setting: Rodrigo Duterte’s inauguration speech and drugs in the Philippines

Exploring the elusive agenda-setting hypothesis pertaining to democratically-elected leaders, we test whether Duterte’s 2016 inauguration speech systematically shifted Filipinos’ policy agenda towards prioritizing illegal drugs. To do this, we examine daily Google searches (in a country that tops internet usage worldwide) and identify a large increase in drug-related searches right after the speech, both in absolute terms and relative to other prominent policy topics. We find no similar increase in neighboring countries, for potentially confounding topics, or after other key events (like his declaration of candidacy). Complementing this analysis, individual-level surveys reveal an increase in the share of respondents considering crime reduction the top national priority. To better identify causality, we exploit the historical timing of local festivals, which left some provinces less exposed to the speech. Results show less-exposed provinces exhibit smaller increases in drug-related Google searches and survey-elicited crime prioritization.

Donald Trump’s Aggressive and Offensive Language Before and After His Inauguration Speeches: A Critical Discourse Analysis

This paper explores selected aggressive and offensive spoken or written discourse material used by the American ex-president Donald Trump at different periods of time during his rule as the United States of America president. The data analysis model will be mainly conducted within the terminology and framework of Van Dijk’s model of critical discourse analysis (henceforth CDA). The research has adopted ten ideological categories to reveal the extent of power, racism and racial discrimination. The current study has mainly investigated how language is structured to show various meanings that indicate the relation of power used in social contexts. The study also tries to show the role of CDA in analyzing elements of power and hegemony and how language users operate them to achieve the goal of successful communication among participants. The abuse is resulted from the use of power as exercised by language users. The way language is perceived and manipulated can identify ideologies imposed by speakers, resulting in controlling addressees through power dominance. The primary objective of this research is to demonstrate the extent to which social power, abuse, and other unpleasant expressions are used in Trump’s political speeches. The research indicates that the majority of Trump’s spoken or written speech methods contain aspects of language that violate social norms and convey a sense of authority and superiority over other addressees.

Inaugural address from the President

Inaugural address from the President

Knowledge, skills, history - a foundation for a climate-positive future

President's Inaugural Address. 2022 IStructE President Jane Entwistle explains why structural engineers need to learn to value their past, to respect the skills and decisions made in the past and work with them to provide a better future built environment.

Towards the Study of Political Text and Translation in Thailand: A Case Study of Thai Translations of Biden’s Inaugural Address

The existing literature concerning the translation of political discourse in Thailand remains limited. To encourage more research in this area, this paper proposes a model for analysing the translation of political texts in the Thai context. Drawing upon Munday’s (2012, 2018) appraisal approach to translation and Schäffner’s (2004, 2012) analysis of the political context around translation, this paper offers a two-level methodology for investigating the Thai-English and English-Thai translation of political texts. The case of US President Biden’s 2021 inaugural address was chosen for testing the model. The findings reveal that the two Thai news agencies translated only some parts of the speech, resulting in a selective re-presentation of Biden’s political discourse. The ideological presentations of the two Thai versions are strikingly different: one representing a faithful portrayal of the original standpoint and the other with a stronger attitude in numerous ideology-laden terms. This paper also discusses the epitextual and contextual elements of the translations in question.

How civil engineers can survive and thrive in the twenty-first century

This is an abridged transcript of the inaugural address of Ed McCann, who became the 157th President of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 2 November 2020. His online address consisted of a series of video presentations and interviews, and is available on the ICE website.

“This Is a Great Nation, and We are a Good People”: President Joe Biden’s Inaugural Address and Attitude of Empathy

ABSTRACT In the middle of a global pandemic, days after an attempted insurrection, and in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House, President Biden spoke of his desire to restore the soul of America in his inaugural address. I argue that Biden’s address rhetorically constituted a civic attitude of empathy by speaking of values that unite Americans, as well as rejecting the anti-deliberative rhetoric of former President Trump. To model a civic attitude of empathy, Biden embraced five shared values: 1) American democratic principles of goodwill, 2) the respect for dissent, 3) focusing on the future, 4) neighborliness to one’s fellow citizen, and 5) the rejection of resentment and intransigence. An attitudinal shift may be a long-term project, but Biden’s speech modeled how Americans could ideally begin to engage in future ethical deliberation at a time when citizens could not even agree on basic facts.

A Study of the Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy From the Perspective of Appraisal Theory

An Inaugural Address is a speech made by a speaker when he or she assumes a new position, stating his or her position, views and policies in light of domestic and international political and economic situations. Based on Martin's Appraisal Theory, this paper mainly uses the three subsystems of Appraisal Theory: Attitude, Engagement, and Graduation to explore and analyze the evaluative devices in Kennedy's Inaugural Address and its expression of the speaker's views and attitudes, and to fully reveal the reasons for the enduring popularity of this speech.

Transitivity Analysis of Joe Biden’s Inaugural Address From the Perspective of Systemic Functional Grammar

Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar provides a new perspective and method for political discourse analysis. This paper first introduces the research status of political discourse at home and abroad, and then elaborates three metafunctions of Systemic Functional Grammar, namely ideational function, interpersonal function as well as textual function. On this basis, this paper makes an in-depth transitivity analysis of the inaugural address of the 46th president of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden. Through profound research, this paper attempts to reveal how English language is applied to hide ideology in political speeches and how president Joe Biden uses various language features to persuade and inspire American people in order to reach his political purpose; at the same time, it also verifies the practicability of Systemic Functional Grammar in the analysis of political speech discourse.

Revoluciónizing América: La Revolución and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz’s 1964 inaugural address

ABSTRACT This essay locates Américan entanglements in the Mexican political trope “La Revolución” (The Revolution) by examining how it was harnessed by Mexican president Gustavo Díaz Ordaz in his 1964 inaugural address. I argue that in this speech, addressed to Mexican citizens and international audiences, Ordaz navigated accumulating (inter)national pressures by stretching the nationalist boundaries of this Mexican rhetorical form. In so doing, his address (re)positioned Mexico as a prominent hemispheric voice prepared to guide other nations out of both present and future international turmoil at the same time that his use of this political trope affirmed a supposed stability in Mexico during a transition of power. In 1964, President Ordaz reimagined La Revolución as Américan rhetoric, and, I suggest, exemplified the tensions, constraints, and potentials of invoking América in Mexican rhetorics.

Analysis of Personal Pronoun in Biden’s 2021 Inaugural Speech Based on the Theory of Interpersonal Function Theory

The inaugural speech is a type of public speech and part of the speech culture. It is also one of the main contents of activities that national leaders often engage in. It embodies not only the humanistic spirit of the society, but also the state leaders’ ardent expectations and best wishes for the people and the country. In recent years, the research on speech discourse analysis has gradually aroused the interest of domestic scholars. Although different scholars have different perspectives on this thesis, they have achieved certain results, especially the exploration of speech discourse under the framework of systemic functional linguistics. Based on the theory of interpersonal function in systemic functional linguistics, this paper analyzes the personal pronouns in Joseph Biden’s inaugural speech from the perspective of interpersonal function theory and aims to reveal how the speaker uses personal pronouns to achieve his speech.

Errata:The Inaugural Address by the President [tribologist Vol.67 No.7 456

Errata:The Inaugural Address by the President [tribologist Vol.67 No.7 456

The Inaugural Address by the President

The Inaugural Address by the President

Inaugural Address As The Reflection Of American Presidents Idiostyle (Based On The Examples Of Selected Speeches)

Inaugural Address As The Reflection Of American Presidents Idiostyle (Based On The Examples Of Selected Speeches)

Inauguration Address from the New President of JACG

Inauguration Address from the New President of JACG

基于语料库的拜登就职演讲的批评性话语分析

基于语料库的拜登就职演讲的批评性话语分析

Thematic Progression and Discourse Analysis

Thematic progression is a very important means for discourse construction. Different types of discourse will choose different thematic progression patterns in order to realize their different communicative purposes. Analyzing discourse through thematic progression pattern is helpful to understand the content and organization of the discourse. This paper uses Halliday’s [1] Theme-Rheme Theory and Zhu’s [2] four patterns of thematic progression to analyze Obama’s inaugural speech. It founds that the simple theme, unmarked theme and the constant thematic progression pattern are used mostly to achieving the communicative purposes.

FROM AAFP: NEW AAFP PRESIDENT URGES FAMILY PHYSICIANS TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST MISINFORMATION

Sterling Ransone, MD, didn’t leave residency with a grand vision to become a leader in family medicine, but the needs of his patients demanded it. Ransone said during his inaugural speech as the new president of the AAFP on September 28 at the 2021 Family Medicine Experience that he got involved

КОММУНИКАТИВНЫЕ ПРАКТИКИ ПРЕЗИДЕНТОВ США И РФ 2000-2008 ГГ.

The public communication practices of U.S. and Russian presidents are built on the basis of legal norms, political culture and established national traditions. The key genres of public communications of presidents in both the U.S. and Russia are: messages to parliaments, inaugural and crisis speeches, press conferences, and interviews. In the practice of the United States and Russia, the genres of messages and inaugural speeches practically coincide in this case. This is not coincidental, since the institution of the presidency in Russia is much younger and the key genres of public communications have been borrowed from Western practices. However, there are also certain specifics. In particular, the genre of crisis speeches is quite often used in the public communication practices of American presidents. In Russia, the practice of crisis speeches is used as a rhetorical tool of presidential communication much less frequently. The exceptions include presidential speeches about the most critical events; as a rule, they are broadcast on record. The know-how of presidential communication in Russia is the format of multihour direct lines with the president, which are broadcast by federal TV channels. The genre of press conferences is used by Russian presidents much more frequently. The rhetoric used by specific presidents adds to the peculiarity of their communication practices.

Indirect Communication in the Discourse of the Inauguration Address

Indirect Communication in the Discourse of the Inauguration Address