A Pragmatic Approach towards the Presidential Address for the New Year
Keywords:
presidential address, discourse analysis, argumentation, discursive structure, modality
Abstract
This paper outlines the distinctive attributes of some presidential addresses offered on the occasion of New Year’s Eve. The article contains both theoretical and empirical parts. First we enumerate a number of general aspects that are characteristic to any political speech broadly speaking, then we contrast these with the results obtained from our discourses analysis applied to Romanian and Moldovan presidential speeches. A special focus has been placed on the argumentative structure, lexical traits, and the use of various types of modalization/modulation.
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Corpus:
New Year Address by President of the Republic of Moldova, Nicolae Timofti, December 31, 2015. Available from: http://www.presedinte.md/rom/presa/mesajul-de-revelion-al-presedintelui-nicolae-timofti
New Year Address by President of the Republic of Moldova, Igor Dodon, December 31, 2016. Available from: http://presedinte.md/rom/presedinte/video/page:13
New Year Address by President of Romania, Emil Constantinescu, December 31, 1999. Available from: http://old.presidency.ro/pdf/date_arhiva/6407_ro.pdf
New Year Address by President of Romania, Ion Iliescu, December 31, 2002. Available from: http://old.presidency.ro/pdf/date_arhiva/4543_ro.pdf
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[3] Charteris-Black J. Politicians and rhetoric: The Persuasive power of metaphor. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. p. 370
[4] Cornillie B, & Pietrandrea P. Modality at work. Cognitive, interactional and textual functions of modal markers. Journal of Pragmatics. [Internet]. 2012 in feb. (cited 2017 May 19). Available from: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00665337/document
[5] Plantin Ch. Argumentation studies and discourse analysis: the French situation and global perspective. Discourse studies. 2002. 4 (3). pp. 343-368
[6] Amossy R. L’argumentation dans le discours. Paris: Armand Colin; 2006. p. 275
[7] Biriş G. Mesajul prezidenţial de anul nou-discurs argumentativ „slab”. [New Year presidential message – “weak” argumentative discourse]. Discurs, Limbaj, Context, Societate. Universitatea din Craiova. 2010. pp. 61-78
[8] Ducrot O, & Anscombre JC. L’argumentation dans la langue. Bruxelles: Pierre Mardaga. 1983. p. 184
[9] Adam J. M. Textele. Tipuri şi prototipuri. Texts. Types and prototypes. Iaşi: Institutul European;. (2009). p. 262
[10] Robrieux J. J. Rhétorique et argumentation. Paris: Armand Colin. 2010. p. 267
[11] Tuţescu M. L’argumentation. Bucureşti: EUB. 2005. p. 424
[12] Sălăvăstru C. Teoria şi practica argumentării. [Theory and practice of argumentation]. Iaşi: Polirom. 2003. p. 416
[13] Aristotel. Retorica. [Translation by Andreiş C, Maftei Ş. Bucureşti:IRI; 2004. p. 464
[14] Adam J. M. La linguistique textuelle. Introduction à l’analyse textuelle des discours. Paris: Armand Colin. 2005. p. 234
[15] Maingueneau D. L’analyse du discours et ses frontières. Marges linguistiques. 2005 May. [cited 2017 Apr 14]. No.9. pp. 64-75. Available from:http://www.revue-texto.net/Parutions/Marges/00_ml092005.pdf
[16] Reboul A, & Moeschler J. Pragmatique du discourse. De l’interprétation de l’énoncé à l’interprétation du discours. Paris:Armand Colin. 1998. p. 220
[17] Lakoff G. Metaphor and war: The metaphor system used to justify the Gulf War. 1991 Jan. [cited 2017 Mar 18]. Available from: https://georgelakoff.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/metaphor-and-war-the-metaphor-system-used-to-justify-war-in-the-gulf-lakoff-1991.pdf
[18] Cienki A. Metaphor in the ”Strict Father“ and ”Nurturant Parent“. Cognitive models: Theoretical issues raised in an empirical study. Cognitive Linguistics. 2005 Jul, 16 (2). pp. 279- 312
[19] Hubert T, & Labbe D. 1990. La répartition des mots dans le vocabulaire présidentiel. Mots. 1990. 22 (22). pp. 80-92
[20] Mayaffre D. Paroles de president. Jacques Chirac (1995-2003) et le discours présidentiel sous la Ve République. Paris: H. Champion. 2004. p. 291
[21] Boicu R. Dezbaterea electorală televizată. Royal şi Sarkozy în finală. [TV election debate. Royal and Sarkozy in the final round]. Bucureşti: Ars Docendi. 2012. p. 353
[22] Sălăvăstru C. Discursul puterii. [The discourse of power]. Iaşi: Institutul European. 1999. p. 358
[23] Stoiciu A. Comunicarea politică. Cum se vând idei şi oameni. [Political communication. How ideas and people are sold] Bucureşti: Libra. 2000. p. 278
[24] Zafiu R. Limbaj şi politică. [Language and Politics]. Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii. 2007. p. 285
[25] Hoarţă Cărăuşu L. Strategii argumentative în discursul politic românesc actual. [Argumentative strategies in the current Romanian political discourse]. Analele Universităţii „Ştefan cel Mare”. Seria Filologie, A. Lingvistica. 2007. XIII (1). pp. 23-32
[26] Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu L. Perspectivă şi modalizare în discursul politic – studiu de caz.[Perspective and modalization in the political discourse]. Limba română: teme actuale. Actele celui de-al 8-lea colocviu al Catedrei de Limba Română. Univ. din Bucureşti. 2009. pp. 271-277.
[27] Haineş R. Televiziunea şi reconfigurarea politicului. Studii de caz: alegerile prezidenţiale din România din anii 1996 şi 2000. [Television and the reconfiguration of politics. Case Studies: Romanian presidential elections from 1996 and 2000]. Iaşi: Polirom. 2002. p. 298
[28] Niculescu-Gorpin A. De ce Eu? Pronumele personale în discursul politic. [Why I? Personal pronoun in the political discourse]. Limba română: teme actuale. Actele celui de al 8-lea Colocviu al Catedrei de limba română. Univ. din Bucureşti. 2009. pp. 333-343.
[29] Neşu N. Specificul strategiei argumentative în discursul politic. [The specific of the argumentative strategy in the political discourse]. Dacoromania [Internet]. 2002-2003 [cited 2017 May 18]; VII - VIII: 231-238. Available from: http://www.dacoromania.inst-puscariu.ro/articole/2002-2003_17.pdf
[30] Maingueneau D. Ethos, scénographie, incorporation. Amossy R. 1999. pp. 75-100.
[31] Sauer C. Christmas messages by heads of state: Multimodality and media adaptations. Fetzer A.& Lauerbach G. E. (eds.). Political Discourse in the Media: Cross-cultural Perspectives. 2007. pp. 227-273
[32] Pineira-Tresmontant C. Persuasion ou tradition, la communication du roi d’Espagne. Boix Christian ed. 2007. pp. 175-203
[33] Alikberova A.R., Vukadinovich S. I, & Nurmieva R. R. New Year Address as a genre of political discourse: political and linguistic research (on the material of Chinese president Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping). Journal of Sustainable Development. 2015. 8 (5). pp. 80-85.
[34] Angenot M. Présupposé, topos, idéologème. Ètudes françaises. 1977. 13(1-2). pp. 11-34
[35] Plantin Ch. L’argumentation. Paris:Seuil. 1996. p. 93
Corpus:
New Year Address by President of the Republic of Moldova, Nicolae Timofti, December 31, 2015. Available from: http://www.presedinte.md/rom/presa/mesajul-de-revelion-al-presedintelui-nicolae-timofti
New Year Address by President of the Republic of Moldova, Igor Dodon, December 31, 2016. Available from: http://presedinte.md/rom/presedinte/video/page:13
New Year Address by President of Romania, Emil Constantinescu, December 31, 1999. Available from: http://old.presidency.ro/pdf/date_arhiva/6407_ro.pdf
New Year Address by President of Romania, Ion Iliescu, December 31, 2002. Available from: http://old.presidency.ro/pdf/date_arhiva/4543_ro.pdf
Published
2018-08-13
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CIUMACENCO, V. (2018). A Pragmatic Approach towards the Presidential Address for the New Year. LUMEN Proceedings, 3, 136-152. https://doi.org/10.18662/lumproc.nashs2017.12
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