TY - JOUR
T1 - A critical discourse analysis of donald trump’s speeches during the 2019/2020 American-Iranian crisis
AU - Moustafa, Basant S.M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The current study is a critical exploration of Donald Trump’s speeches delivered during the 2019/2020 tensions between the USA and Iran. The study analyzes the speeches given by Trump in the course of these heated confrontations, using a synergy of two critical discourse analysis tools, i.e., Fairclough’s ten-question model (2001) and van Dijk’s Ideological Square (2006), to reveal the experiential, relational and expressive values in Trump’s language use as a way into exploring the interrelation between the discursive structure of the speeches and their ideological structure. The wordings and grammatical structures were examined to unveil the power strategies used by Trump in the two referred-to speeches. The results show that the speeches comprise perspicuous linguistic traces of Trump’s ideological underpinnings. Thus, the analytical tools yielded more insight into discursive and ideological structures. Moreover, the linguistic features used by Trump to exert power and build power relations in the speeches were revealed.
AB - The current study is a critical exploration of Donald Trump’s speeches delivered during the 2019/2020 tensions between the USA and Iran. The study analyzes the speeches given by Trump in the course of these heated confrontations, using a synergy of two critical discourse analysis tools, i.e., Fairclough’s ten-question model (2001) and van Dijk’s Ideological Square (2006), to reveal the experiential, relational and expressive values in Trump’s language use as a way into exploring the interrelation between the discursive structure of the speeches and their ideological structure. The wordings and grammatical structures were examined to unveil the power strategies used by Trump in the two referred-to speeches. The results show that the speeches comprise perspicuous linguistic traces of Trump’s ideological underpinnings. Thus, the analytical tools yielded more insight into discursive and ideological structures. Moreover, the linguistic features used by Trump to exert power and build power relations in the speeches were revealed.
KW - American-Iranian crisis
KW - CDA
KW - Fairclough’s ten question model
KW - Trump’s speeches
KW - Van Dijk’s ideological square
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115402098&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.15738/kjell.21..202108.735
DO - 10.15738/kjell.21..202108.735
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85115402098
SN - 1598-1398
VL - 2021
SP - 735
EP - 751
JO - Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics
JF - Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics
IS - 21
ER -