‘BENEFICIARY’ AS A MEANS FOR A DICHOTOMOUS
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‘BENEFICIARY’ AS A MEANS FOR A DICHOTOMOUS REPRESENTATION IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE
‘BENEFICIARY’ AS A MEANS FOR A DICHOTOMOUS REPRESENTATION IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Author(s): Marek Hampl
Subject(s): Communication studies, Political behavior, Politics and communication
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: beneficiary; transitivity; material process; political speech; George W. Bush;

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the employment of the participant role ‘Beneficiary: Recipient’ in the discourse of U.S. President George W. Bush in the period from September 11, 2001 to May 1, 2003. The analysis presented in the paper has been conducted on the corpus of 92 speeches delivered by the speaker. The aim of the paper is to observe the formation of the ‘Us’ and ‘Them’groups on the basis of the involvement of the participant ‘Beneficiary: Recipient’. The theoretical framework for the analysis is grounded in the system of transitivity developed by M. A. K. Halliday. In the analytical part, the focus will be placed on the analysis of the participant ‘Beneficiary: Recipient’ that is involved in Material processes in George W. Bush’s discourse. It will be argued that the employment of this participant also contributed to positive presentation of ‘Us’ and to negative presentation of ‘Them’.

  • Issue Year: 10/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 31-48
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English