A critical discourse analysis of the U.S President Barack Obama’s inaugural speeches in 2009 and 2013 / Nguyễn Thu Trang; NHDKH Do Kim Phuong, Ph.D.

This study aims at applying the two theories on critical discourse analysis by Fairclough and the systemic functional grammar by M.A.K Halliday to analyze the inaugural speeches in 2009 and 2013 by President Barack Obama. The study is analyzed basing on Fairclough’s theory which including...

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Tác giả chính: Nguyễn, Thu Trang
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Tóm tắt:This study aims at applying the two theories on critical discourse analysis by Fairclough and the systemic functional grammar by M.A.K Halliday to analyze the inaugural speeches in 2009 and 2013 by President Barack Obama. The study is analyzed basing on Fairclough’s theory which including three main stages: description, interpretation and explanation of which covering many aspects of grammar and vocabulary such as modality, cohesive devices, etc. which are found on the two speeches. The description deals with vocabulary, grammatical, transitivity, thematization and macrostructure. In terms of vocabulary, the discourse has a clear classification scheme presented by the speaker. In terms of grammatical features, the power and ideology of the President could be transferred through his creative utterances. As a result, the author found what strategies and how it applies into the two speeches to get the ideas of speaker across.