luận văn thạc sĩ a critical discourse analysis of president trump speeches in the united nation general assembly

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY TRAN NGOC ANH TRAM A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SPEECHES IN THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY Field: English Linguistics Code: 8.22.02.01 Supervisor: Assoc Prof Dr Nguyén Van Long BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN TRAN NGOC ANH TRAM PHAN TICH DIEN NGON PHE PHAN TRONG CAC BAI PHAT BIEU CUA TONG THONG TRUMP TAI DAI HOI DONG LIEN HIEP QUOC Chuyên ngành: Maso: Ngôn ngữ Anh 8.22.02.01 Người hướng dẫn: PGS TS Nguyễn Văn Long STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP Except where reference is made in the text of the thesis, this thesis contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole or in part from a thesis by which I have qualified for or been awarded another degree or diploma No other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgements in the thesis This thesis has not been submitted for the award of any degree or diploma in any other tertiary institution Binh Dinh, 2020 Tran Ngoc Anh Tram il ABSTRACT This investigate study applied a three political Critical Discourse speeches Analysis of President perspective Trump’s in the to United Nations Assembly General The data for analysis in this thesis was taken from the official website in the US, so the quality of the data is entirely reliable and available The study was based on the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis of Norman Fairclough Explanation with three parts: Description, It focused on the textual description qualitative and quantitative approaches grammatical Interpretation, and The research employed The results show that strategies of structure use to reflect the surrounding world like transitivity with two main processes positive/ negative material and relational; passive/ active structures, sentences, and nominalization was used in_ political speeches The findings show that politicians employ linguistic features and persuasive thesis strategies can be used interested in understanding to represent their power as a reference political of the speeches and for teachers, and can different perspectives ideology learners, provide Besides, or those them with of critical discourse this who a are better analysis Hopefully, the results of this thesis may be useful for those who are interested in critical discourse analysis 1H TABLE OF CONTENTS STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP ou cccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees | ABSTRACT Loo il IV.)0519)22600))405))6)ọỤạaAAẢẢAẢAAẢẢẢẢẢẢẢ lil IBRJ9)0.)0 LIST OF FIGURES 200i CHAPTER In co cece II Vil INTRODUCTION £:ääậ])]})1]1)Ả)Ả)Ả)ẢẢẢẢ 1 1.2 Aims & ODJeCTIVES In vi ae 4A 90) oi ` ae 3 1.3 Research QQuestIOnS cQQn HH HH nh kh ven 1.4 Scope of the Study IS 2000062)0i2- 00 I9) y0 v10 i2 000/1 l0 CHAPTER LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL I57.\0).46749)0)))9H4 "(s0 i0: 0420:0070 2.2.1 The concept of DIscourse anaÌyS1S -ccs ca 2.2.2 Critlcal DIscourse AnaÏyS1S -cccnn nen 2.2.3 Fairclough’s Analytical framewWOrK -cccc c2 10 2.2.4 Systemic Functional Grammar’ role in CDA 16 1V 2N» ca200)000000 00 0n 17 2.3 Political Speech 19 “Na 20 CHAPTER RESEARCH METHOIDS . SSS S1 x22 21 3.1 Research methods cecceeecececsnnneeeeeeeeeeeceeeeeeenaaaaeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaeeeeees 21 3.2 Research procedures cccceessecccccceseeeecceceaeceeecccceeaeeseeececaaaneeeeeseeaaes 21 3.3 Data COIOCTION 3.4 Data analysis nh HH cv 22 23 3.5 Reliability and valIdIty ST nhe SG a7 23 24 CHAPTER FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 00 ceeccceeeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeees 25 4.1 Experiential values of øsrammatical Íeafures ««