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Abstract
Introduction: Using a qualitative and partially quantitative approach, this study adopts Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) eclectically on three speechs by the current U.S. president, Joe Biden, revolving around the Russia-Ukraine Crisis. It is worth noting that the issue is tackled from a linguistic point of view where features, wordings, phrasings, and structuring are the main focus.
Research Problem: The masses are guided by various factors that affect their viewpoints/ideologies and PD is one of these factors; this is due to the fact that leaders and politicians, especially presidents, seek ideological and viewpoint imposition on the audience. Imposition is done in various ways and it is most effective when it is done subtly and covertly in order for it not to be detected.
Research Questions: The study revolves around four questions. However, one of these questions is the main one, while the others are sub-questions of the main question:
1- How presidents tend to impose views and opinions on the audience?
The sub-questions aim to answer the main question and they are as follows:
a. What are the linguistic techniques/strategies and features used in the three speeches by Biden on the Russia-Ukraine crisis to maintain dominance?
b. How is CDA implemented to disclose the manipulative nature of PD, in addition to power, dominance, and control?
c. To what extent are power, dominance, and control demonstrated?
Rationale of the Study: The gap addressed, in this study, is how presidents tend to impose views and opinions on the audience. Biden implements linguistic techniques/strategies and features to construct, crystalize, and frame certain viewpoints so as to put the Ukrainian war to an end and to formulate the audience’s minds and reshape it. Biden’s speeches included direct threats, menaces, and promises to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, his country and troops in Ukraine, in addition to denigrating and diminishing them
Significance of the Study: This study analyzes three presidential speeches on the war crisis in Ukraine, highlighting the significance of language in politics. CDA is used eclectically to prove its prominent role in disclosing and overriding the problematic and manipulative nature of presidential speeches that might lead to deception. Linguists and political analysts will find this study useful as it combines language and politics together, exploring how language constructs and shapes politics, politicians, and the audience’s minds and perspectives.
Overview of the Methodology: Each speech will demonstrate 3 linguistic techniques/strategies and features. A range of 1-5 examples of each technique/strategy and feature will be displayed to provide clarification on how power, domination, and control are portrayed in the speeches. Some features will be demonstrated numerically either through simple counting of the features’ occurences or through percentages.
Key Findings and Results: This study has indicated and showcased how far presidents express power, dominance, and control and enact it onto the audience. Hence, the main question and the sub-questions 1 (a-b-c) have been answered. There has been an implementation of pronoun usage, word choice, foregrounding, structural and ontological metaphors, pathos, intertextuality, oppositions, and modality to impose and reflect certain aspect through the eyes of the speaker.
Contributions: This study in an original work. It contributes to further studies that tackle similar topics laying down foundations and evoking novel ideas. Additonally, it suggests further research in this field that includes multi-modal aspects including gestures, intonation, facial expressions, and more. Another suggestion includes tackling Russia’s responses on Biden’s speeches. It can pay close attention to the same linguistic techniques/strategies and features proposed in this study or propose other features that tend to demonstrate power, dominance, and control.