“…Based on van Dijk's (1997) definition of political discourse, the main body of the exis ting literature is devoted to politicians' spee ches at official events or socio-political events. For example, a binary discourse of good and evil emerged in the speeches of U. S. presidents (Daghrir, 2013;Hughes, 2019). In addition to studies of democratic societies (Allen, Bara, & Bartle, 2013;Chung & Park, 2010), the speech of political ac tors in authoritarian states may inject the ru ling ideology to order, justify and legalize their policies rather than attempt to capture people's hearts (Carreon & Svetanant, 2017, p. 640).…”