What is Political Discourse Analysis?

Dijk, Teun A. van

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“…A political speech is a vehicle for communicating politicized messages and for persuading people of their validity and truthfulness. Political courses of action, regardless of their actual legal or moral underpinnings, can be made to appear reasonable and necessary (van Dijk, 1997). Accordingly, speeches perform important political and societal functions: they aim to describe and explain events in terms of political implications, and typically possess an action orientation in that they can implicitly or explicitly specify "appropriate" patterns of action in response to particular events.…”

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“…Yet political speeches typically aim to downplay overt displays of in-group favoritism and out-group discrimination. Speeches are usually planned and speechwriters are mindful of how the speech is likely to be "heard" by particular audiences (van Dijk, 1997). This article examines the intricacies of political discourse around a highly contentious political development in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which would have been "heard" differently by particular stakeholders in the conflict.…”

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Threat, Victimhood, and Peace: Debating the 2011 Palestinian UN State Membership Bid

Jaspal

Coyle²

2014

Digest Mid East Studies

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The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has been described as one of the most intractable in the world. This article first provides an overview of the sociopolitical events that led up to the Palestinian UN state membership bid in September 2011, and second, as a case study, it examines how the Israeli–Palestinian conflict was constructed in speeches delivered by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the state membership bid to the UN General Assembly in September 2011. Despite their opposing agendas, there are some significant discursive similarities in the two speeches. The most salient shared discourses concern that of in‐group victimhood on the one hand, and that of out‐group threat on the other. It is argued that the speeches dispel support for intergroup reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians by aggravating grievances on both sides and accentuating intergroup suspicion. This article highlights the importance of examining political speeches in order to better understand the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

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Section: Digest Of Middle East Studiesmentioning

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Threat, Victimhood, and Peace: Debating the 2011 Palestinian UN State Membership Bid

Jaspal

Coyle²

2014

Digest Mid East Studies

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“…To this end, I will rely on the theoretical frameworks of critical-political discourse analysis, as defined by Van Dijk (1997), and appraisal theory (Martin and White 2005). In addition, given that metaphor is an important feature of political rhetoric, the analysis of figurative language will be embedded in the frames of conceptual metaphor theory, initiated by Lakoff and Johnson (1980), and CharterisBlack's critical metaphor analysis (2004,2005).…”

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Words as weapons for mass persuasion: dysphemism in Churchill's wartime speeches

Crespo‐Fernández¹

2013

Text &Amp; Talk

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Politicians and orators employ words as weapons in order to exert ideological control and make an audience believe something in an ostensive way. In this regard, taking critical-political discourse analysis and appraisal theory as theoretical frameworks, it is the purpose of this paper to shed some light on the dysphemistic words and expressions identified in some of the memorable wartime speeches over a crucial two-year period for the outcome of the Second World War (1940)(1941) by one of the most outstanding British politicians and statesmen, Winston Churchill. As metaphors are pervasive in political discourse and vital to the language of leadership, special attention is given to the analysis of dysphemistic figurative language within Lakoff and Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory and Charteris-Black's critical metaphor analysis. The results obtained support the idea that Churchill's skillful use of dysphemism is closely connected with his overall political goals of instilling courage and inspiring confidence in his fellow countrymen in such difficult times for Britain as those of a war against the powerful Nazi Germany.

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“…My use of rhetoric is aligned with this notion of linguistic persuasion, not with the negative label often assigned to political spin, or with insincere, hyperbolic, and verbose political speech (Goddard & Krebs, 2015;Van Dijk, 1997). In the latter sense, "talk is cheap" and political speech is "mere rhetoric" (Krebs & Jackson, 2007).…”

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“…Reagan published a second National Security Strategy in 1988, the final year of his presidency. President George H. W. Bush published two National Security Strategies in his four years in office in 1990, 1991, and 1993President William Clinton, seven in eight years -1994, 1997(Stolberg, 2010.…”

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Actions speak louder than words : policy legitimation and the national security strategy

Heller¹

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What is Political Discourse Analysis?

Cited by 529 publications

References 37 publications

Threat, Victimhood, and Peace: Debating the 2011 Palestinian UN State Membership Bid

Threat, Victimhood, and Peace: Debating the 2011 Palestinian UN State Membership Bid

Words as weapons for mass persuasion: dysphemism in Churchill's wartime speeches

Actions speak louder than words : policy legitimation and the national security strategy

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