Papers by Lalana Pathomchaiwat
According to a turn of the century, corpora are established as a modern platform of Humanities an... more According to a turn of the century, corpora are established as a modern platform of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) empirical researches (Baker et al, 2008, 221)(Caldas-Coulthard and Moon 2010. 99) (Mayaffre & Poudat, 2013, 65). A corpus-analysis discourse studies or CADS research have increasingly developed in several parts of the world for decades particularly in the US political scenarios. The research major purpose is to explore the potential US presidential speeches systematically. Three essential residents' victory speeches conducted by three famous presidents in the 21 st century were included for the political discourse analysis (PDA); the presidents of the United States, "Barack Obama", "Donald Trump", and "Joe Biden". The investigation was carried out serving two crucial research questions; 1) what lexical features are emerged from PDA and 2) What kinds of powers are reflected from the US political discourses. By means of the quantitative data analyzing, potential linguistic aspects and speech acts were explained concretely. Among those corpus analysis and findings, the research discussions are instituted basing on the statistical results and descriptive aspects; speech acts and powers. The implications of this research play an important role on both the PDA in linguistic experiments and the corpus-driven analysis works extensively.
Political Discourse Analysis" or "PDA" plays crucial roles aiming to embrace audience's attention... more Political Discourse Analysis" or "PDA" plays crucial roles aiming to embrace audience's attention and motivation. By means of political discourse, the constructed contexts revealed the current information of matters purposively however the PDA isn't the merely methods of how to comprehend political language being communicated. This study aims to explore the US political speeches by two historical orators. The aim of the report is to analyze the selected political speeches by Martin Luther King, and the president of the USA, Barack Obama. The research questions are: 1) what are lexical features emerged from PDA and 2) What kinds of powers are reflected from the US political discourses. The result of the descriptive analysis divulges the similarity and diversity of the linguistic elements proposed through the three linguistic aspects: 1] cohesion, 2] pragmatic, and 3] power. The important textual examination in theses selected works is the benefit for the variety of crucial linguistic elements interpreted and explained systematically. It is said that PDA directly proclaims various dimensions of political discourse.
The 13th NPRU National Academic Conference Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, Jul 8, 2021
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Papers by Lalana Pathomchaiwat