A Pragma-Discourse Study of The Campaign Manifesto of the 2023 All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate (Published)
This study examines the 2023 election manifesto of the APC presidential candidate. The objectives of the investigation are to analyse the pragma-discourse features in the election manifesto used by the APC presidential candidate to present himself positively and others negatively, examine the speech acts in the election manifesto through which the APC candidate presented his political agenda, describe the ideologies that influenced the policies of the APC candidate and reveal the covert meanings in the election manifesto expressed by the APC candidate. The pragma-discourse features used in the manifesto of the APC candidate are transitivity processes (material, mental and verbal), sentence types (simple and complex), cohesive relations (reference, additive and adversative conjunctions), deixis (temporal and spatial), inversion, and thematisation. The APC presidential candidate employed these features to present himself positively and other political opponents negatively. The dominant speech acts observed in the election manifesto are commissive and assertive. Bola Ahmed Tinubu employed commissive and assertive speech acts. The commissive speech act conveys the APC candidate’s plans in the election manifesto. The Assertive Speech Act states the policies and reforms of the APC candidate as well as his political opponents’ limitations. The study shows that the APC candidate employed covert and subtle means to brandish his political opponents’ limitations and inefficiency.
Keywords: All Progressive Congress (APC), Discourse Analysis, Political Parties, Pragmatics, campaign, manifesto, presidential candidate, presidential election
The Function of Discourse Analysis in Improving Medicine Students’ Listening Comprehension: Cognitive Psychology Perspective in ESP Field (Published)
This paper is an attempt to investigate the function of discourse analysis in improving medicine students’ listening comprehension by a group of students doing their Bachelor of Science in Medicine at Tabuk University in Saudi Arabia. It investigates the function of discourse as a way of comprehending difficult skills to learn and practice effective listening. The result of the research provided some helpful recommendations for ESP teachers by discussing the theoretical and practical bases of Discourse Analysis (DA) in teaching listening comprehension. The sample of the study included 80 Saudis in their 1st Year. The research recommends that educationists and decision-makers be concerned with developing and designing listening materials relevant to the function of Discourse Analysis in teaching listening comprehension for medicine or ESP students.
Citation: Alamri H.E. (2023) The Function of Discourse Analysis in Improving Medicine Students’ Listening Comprehension: Cognitive Psychology Perspective in ESP Field, International Journal of English Language and Linguistics Research, Vol.11, No 1, pp.13-25
Keywords: Discourse Analysis, ESP, Listening Comprehension, Medicine
Islamophobia in the UK print media: An intersectional critical discourse analysis (Published)
This paper investigates how various Muslim-identity groups are represented in the British press. The study adopted an intersectional critical discourse analysis as an analytical framework (see Baker and Levon 2016) of a corpus of a medium size. The method adopted used drew on corpus methods by identifying strong collocations associated with each identified identity followed by qualitative analysis. The findings highlight the living experiences of British Muslims which might be gendered, classed and racialized with certain Muslim identity-groups. The present study demonstrates through an intersectional approach that media representations of Muslims are constituted through race, gender and class and that Muslims are perceived to be othered in contemporary British public discourses.
Keywords: Britain, Discourse Analysis, Discourse of Islamophobia, corpus analysis, intersectionality
A Discourse Analysis of Persian Translation of Passive Voice in Political Speeches according to Catford’s Categories (Published)
Drawing upon the framework of Catford’s Shifts, this study is a DA investigation into the translation of passive voice in English speeches of the US politicians during the year 2013. Having carried out a detailed discourse analysis on a corpus of 29 speeches, the number of frequencies and percentages of the instances were computed. The findings show that in translating passive structures in political speeches, translators use structural shifts with high frequency; however, class shifts were used when the translator was not able to create the same effect or emphasize a particular message, while intra-system, unit and level shifts were not used at all. Having been applied Catford’s translation notion mostly on literary or some psychology texts in previous studies, this research has contributed to the theory in the genre of political texts.
Keywords: Catford's Categories, Discourse Analysis, Passive voice, Persian Translation, Political Discourse Analysis, Political Speeches