Essays about: "Positive self- and negative other presentation"

Found 4 essays containing the words Positive self- and negative other presentation.

1. 1. Bolsonaro and Social Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Brazilian President’s Populist Communication on Twitter

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Yago Matheus da Silva; [2020]
   Keywords : Populism; Social Media; Twitter; Bolsonaro; Discourse-Historical Approach DHA ;

   Abstract : The present study explores Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s online communication on the microblogging platform Twitter. The study aims to present the populist characteristics embedded in the president’s tweets, as well as the strategies he uses in his communication on the social media platform. READ MORE

3. 2. Appraisal in Political Speech: A Comparative Discursive Study of Winston Churchill and Tony Blair

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Richard Helander; [2014]
   Keywords : Appraisal theory; Appraisal framework; Political speech; Discourse Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis; Us and them; Positive self- and negative other presentation; Legitimisation; Winston Churchill; Tony Blair; Speaker alignment; Judgement; Heteroglossic engagement; Rhetoric; Politicial language; Speaker-addressee context creation; War rhetoric; Intervention rhetoric; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This study investigated alignments in speeches held by two historically prominent politicians: Sir Winston Churchill and Tony Blair. The speeches that comprised the data of this study were a speech from 3 September, 1939, for the former, and a speech held on 18 March, 2003, for the latter. READ MORE

4. 3. A Critical Study of Mubarak’s Last Speech: Examining the Manipulative Strategies

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Arabiska

   Author : Shaymaa Esmail; [2013]
   Keywords : Critical Discourse analysis; Political speeches; Manipulation; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This paper is trying to examine whether or not manipulation exists in political speeches by investigating the last speech given by the Egyptian ex-president, Mubarak, during the revolution of January 25th, 2011. The study is conducted, mainly, by applying Critical Discourse Analysis theory to the text under examination with the aim of pointing out manipulative features. READ MORE

5. 4. WAR/ PEACE JOURNALISM APPROACH IN VIETNAMESE ONLINE MEDIA COVERAGE OF SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE : An analysis of Mediated Vietnamese Public Diplomacy Messages

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Thi Hong Nhung Bui; [2012]
   Keywords : Vietnam; public diplomacy; South China Sea; Vietnam; China; war journalism; peace journalism;

   Abstract : This research aims at examining the Vietnamese online media’s framing of conflict, thereby highlighting the outstanding characteristics of peace journalism and war journalism frames available in the media of an Asian peripheral country when it covers conflicts with other core, more powerful nations. The study is inspired from an overarching hypothesis of a possible junction between peace journalism and public diplomacy as relevant theories have it that they are basically identical in one sense: both representing a form of message which carries the note of peace-rebuilding, solution-orientated and mutual understanding in the war context. READ MORE