Investigating the shift in voice and rhetoric of United States administrations regarding the Middle East 2001–2016

Kazzaz, Mourhaf (2022) Investigating the shift in voice and rhetoric of United States administrations regarding the Middle East 2001–2016. In: Voices in texts and contexts. Sunway University Press. ISBN 9789675492556

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Abstract

This chapter attempts to apply the character-interlocutor-narrator voice model to the discourse of United States (US) administrations between 2003 and 2016. It also investigates the representation of the self and the other as well as the threat representation of the other. The data for the study are composed of key speeches given by Presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama while in office. The findings of the study shows that a shift can be detected in the administrations' approaches to representing identity and the relationship with the other that transforms from a conservative neo-realist worldview to a more interdependent liberal one. Additionally, a unique mediator voice emerges in the speeches of Barack Obama, characterized by the use of indexical demonstrative expressions.

Item Type: Book Section
Keywords: Ideological square | International relations | Political discourse analysis | Proximisation | Representation | Political theory | Voice
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > International Relations
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Political Science
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Public Administration
JGU School/Centre: Jindal School of International Affairs
Depositing User: Arjun Dinesh
Date Deposited: 19 Mar 2022 09:51
Last Modified: 19 Apr 2022 10:31
Official URL: https://press.sunway.edu.my/books/voices-in-texts-...
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/1731

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