An Analysis of Graduation Resources in Concession Addresses

Abstract

The concession address is generally considered as the final swan song of a lost campaign, communicating the defeated presidential nominee's thankfulness and gratitude to his or her supporters. Transcripts, videos or audios of concession addresses are easily accessible to the public via internet, television or even radio. With its easy accessibility, the concession address plays a significant part and has a high profile in the public's daily life. Nonetheless, the researches on concession addresses are few and far between. Based on the system of Graduation within the Appraisal Theory, an analysis of graduation resources in concession addresses by American presidential nominees has been conducted. In this paper, the author aims to find how the political addresser to achieve alignment with the audience by using different kinds of graduation resources. The results show that American presidential nominees tend to be profusive in employing graduation resources, among which they are prone to employ far more Force resources than Focus resources in the given sample. This means that American presidential nominees are inclined to use force resources to highlight their attitudes and proper graduations, appropriately indicating their strong love to people and a strong sense of patriotism.

A Comparative Analysis of the Graduation Resources Used by the Defense Lawyers in Chinese and American Courts——A Case Study of the Wang Chengzhong Case and the Stump Case

“…(Martin & White, 2005) 2.2 Applied research on appraisal system As the appraisal system is very important to explore the interpersonal meaning of discourses, the appraisal system has gained wide attention from scholars at home and abroad since put forward. As one of the three subsystems of the appraisal system, the graduation system is also widely used in various discourses, such as academic discourses (Xie, 2017;Wang & Guan, 2016), debate discourses (Dong, 2012), literary texts (Fu & Fu, 2009), news discourses (Jiang & Xu, 2019), translation discourses (Munday, 2015;Shi & Gao, 2019), concession addresses (Li & Li, 2019). For example, Wang & Guan (2016) made a comparative analysis of graduation resources used in English and Chinese linguistics book reviews, and found that there are a large number of graduation resources in English and Chinese linguistics book reviews, but English and Chinese linguistics book reviews show their own characteristics in terms of force and focus.…”

Jejaring Graduasi pada Teks Evaluatif di Media Sosial Facebook: Analisis Graduasi-Force Intensifikasi

“…Graduasi force dapat dilihat pada kata yang bermakna kuantifikasi seperti 'billion', 'multiple' dan kata yang bermakna intensifikasi seperti pada kata 'the best' dan 'vital'( menunjukkan makna 'important' atau 'significant'). Li ( 2019) mengidentifikasi sarana graduasi di dalam pidato "Conssesion Addressee" calon presiden USA. Dalam penelitian tersebut ditemukan penanda graduasi untuk meyakinkan audiens seperti kata 'large'; dan frasa month after month.…”

“…Secara leksikogramatikal, berdasarkan pada contoh kasus aspek graduasi di dalam sebuah teks yang disajikan oleh Martin dan White ( 2005) dan beberapa penelitian terdahulu (Crystalia & Sunardi, 2018;Fan, 2019;Li, 2019;Putri, 2019;Swear, 2015), elemen-elemen intensifikator terdiri dari elemen sirkumstansi (intensifier), epitet (noun atau adjective), dan elemen modalitas pada tataran frasa. Proses graduasi pada tataran frasa tersebut menunjukkan kombinasi endosentrik.…”