Ideology and Power in Presidential Speech
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210421.123How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Power, Ideology, Self-representation, political speech
- Abstract
Despite the fact that he frequently produced controversial statements in the public domain, Donald Trump has attracted researchers’ attention to investigate his political speech. His controversies may be seen as a potential area that brings linguistic currency, which may trigger ideological implications due to its condensed power. This paper aims to report how such a controversial speech served a certain degree of power that represented a particular ideology. Wodak’s discursive strategies were applied to analyze 15 data derived from Trump’s speech as his response to the idea of proposing Jerusalem as the capital city. The results show that nomination or referential, predication, perspectivation, argumentation and intensification strategies were applied and essentially framed within positive self-presentation. The fact that positive self-presentation mantles ideology and power via controversial statements galvanizes propositions, strengthening the acceptance of controversy in a different fashion. Based on the findings, it is recommended to further investigate power and ideology representation, which transpires ironical expressions as positive self-representations. Such ironical expressions may conceptualize the nature of ideological power in various patterns in different contexts.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Meinarni Susilowati AU - Witra Ulkhasanah PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/22 TI - Ideology and Power in Presidential Speech BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Social Science (ICONETOS 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 860 EP - 867 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210421.123 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210421.123 ID - Susilowati2021 ER -