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Positive Discourse Analysis of Obama’s Weekly Radio Address

Author: ZuoDa
Tutor: HuJiaYing
School: Northeast Agricultural University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Positive discourse analysis Evaluation theory Radio Address
CLC: H313
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

The perspective of this paper the use of evaluation theory from the positive discourse analysis the Radio Address discourse analysis. This analysis corpus ten U.S. President Barack Obama's radio speech, the selected discourse are drawn at random. The U.S. presidential radio address in the United States has become a tradition, which originated in President Roosevelt's \Is a form of political speech. Closer distance with the American people at the same time it announced major policy decisions in the dissemination of information, political purpose and intent of making it easier to be accepted. The evaluation of the theory is based on the system functions linguist Martin headed linguists Interpersonal Meaning of Systemic Functional Linguistics in Halliday based on a theoretical framework, it is a new development of systemic functional linguistics. The evaluation of the theory is a semantic resource systems, the development has been the formation of a description and interpretation of the theoretical system of the language the user point of view, attitude, stance evaluative language resources. Attitude system, the intervention system and differential system can be divided into three subsystems. Positive discourse analysis is the complement of critical discourse analysis. Positive discourse analysis discourse analysis from the perspective of construction. Positive discourse analysis is not a radical analysis Discourse ideologies and power relations, but to promote positive reform and proposed a peaceful solution to the problem. In this paper, the above methods and angle a systematic analysis of the discourse. This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is the introduction, thesis writing sense of purpose and research objectives and the overall structure of the thesis overview. The second chapter is a literature review, to review the results of previous studies. Summary 11 outlines the purpose of the definition of political speech, the predecessors of the discourse of political speech, especially radio speech analysis of positive discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis Discourse Analysis and the results of previous studies, and evaluation domestic and international development of the theory contrived to introduce. Chapter introduction to the systematic and comprehensive evaluation theory research tool. On attitude, intervention and poor system is explained in detail, and to build a theoretical framework for text positive discourse analysis. The fourth chapter is a core part of this article. First introduced paper data collection and application of qualitative and quantitative methods for analysis. Secondly, from the emotion, judgment and appreciation detailed analysis of the attitude and position of the corpus implied; then intervene angle analysis, declared major from borrowed words, deny, accepted and vested subsystem of a radio speech Interventional resources for analysis. The purpose is to show that a variety of different attitudes voiced able to reach agreement and consensus. Finally, the differential system analysis, hierarchical attitude and intervention resources. This paper focuses on analysis of strong language potential semantic expression, aimed at the potential of the purpose and intent of the prominent speakers. The fifth chapter is a summary of the paper, to summarize and explain the results of the analysis of three major subsystems evaluation theory, also pointed out the limitations of this paper and constructive suggestions. In summary, this paper attempts to do positive discourse analysis evaluation theory theoretical tool to Obama Radio Address. Although not comprehensive and in-depth, but aims to open new perspectives for political speech discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis play a complementary role.

Positive Discourse Analysis of Obama’s Weekly Radio Address

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