Unveiling the Microstructure Elements of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Interviews: A Political Discourse Analysis
This descriptive qualitative study seeks to unravel the microstructure elements of the interviews of President Rodrigo Duterte and how he represents himself and his opponents using political discourse analysis. The corpora consisted of his 30 recent interviews at the time of writing this paper and w...
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doaj-15637d10b32547049b6fced94497f0442021-08-10T20:18:53ZengTawasul International Centre for Publishing, Research and DialogueInternational Journal of Language and Literary Studies2704-55282704-71562019-12-011310011110.36892/ijlls.v1i3.7644Unveiling the Microstructure Elements of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Interviews: A Political Discourse AnalysisYuri C. Lemana0Al Ryanne Gatcho1Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU)Trinity University of AsiaThis descriptive qualitative study seeks to unravel the microstructure elements of the interviews of President Rodrigo Duterte and how he represents himself and his opponents using political discourse analysis. The corpora consisted of his 30 recent interviews at the time of writing this paper and were retrieved in an online archive of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO). The findings indicated that Duterte’s discourse has these various linguistic features: modality, attributions, disclaimer, presuppositions, validity claims, pronoun use, transitivity, passivation, number of game, lexicon, idioms, metaphors, intertextuality, and profanity. The study revealed that Duterte manipulatively uses language to reflect a positive representation of himself and negative representation of others, legitimizing his authority and delegitimizing those in opposition.https://ijlls.org/index.php/ijlls/article/view/76philippines; politics; discourse analysis; microstructure; discourse |
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Unveiling the Microstructure Elements of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Interviews: A Political Discourse Analysis |
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Unveiling the Microstructure Elements of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Interviews: A Political Discourse Analysis |
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Unveiling the Microstructure Elements of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Interviews: A Political Discourse Analysis |
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Unveiling the Microstructure Elements of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Interviews: A Political Discourse Analysis |
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Unveiling the Microstructure Elements of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Interviews: A Political Discourse Analysis |
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unveiling the microstructure elements of president rodrigo duterte’s interviews: a political discourse analysis |
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Tawasul International Centre for Publishing, Research and Dialogue |
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International Journal of Language and Literary Studies |
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2704-5528 2704-7156 |
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2019-12-01 |
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This descriptive qualitative study seeks to unravel the microstructure elements of the interviews of President Rodrigo Duterte and how he represents himself and his opponents using political discourse analysis. The corpora consisted of his 30 recent interviews at the time of writing this paper and were retrieved in an online archive of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO). The findings indicated that Duterte’s discourse has these various linguistic features: modality, attributions, disclaimer, presuppositions, validity claims, pronoun use, transitivity, passivation, number of game, lexicon, idioms, metaphors, intertextuality, and profanity. The study revealed that Duterte manipulatively uses language to reflect a positive representation of himself and negative representation of others, legitimizing his authority and delegitimizing those in opposition. |
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philippines; politics; discourse analysis; microstructure; discourse |
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