Representation of Gender Through Framing: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Hillary Clinton’s Selected Speeches
| Autor: | Maria Isabel Maldonado García, Safina Kanwal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Presidential election
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Media studies 050801 communication & media studies 030206 dentistry Social practice 03 medical and health sciences Critical discourse analysis Politics 0508 media and communications 0302 clinical medicine Framing (social sciences) Cultural diversity Depiction Sociology Ideology media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of English Linguistics. 9:321 |
| ISSN: | 1923-8703 1923-869X |
| DOI: | 10.5539/ijel.v9n2p321 |
| Popis: | Foucault’s theory of powerand discoursehas opened new horizons in the various fields of linguistics. It has brought the working of the power of discourse into the focus of research. Critical Discourse Analysis looks at this relationship between language and power. Language is taken as a patent tool for exerting power and for building identity (Foucault, 1998). Critical discourse analysis (CDA) reveals the ways by which discourse is manipulated for the construction of various domains such as identity, ethnicity, ideology, cultural differences and gender. The most wide-ranging and most influential work in CDA is of Norman Fairclough. He takes languageas a social practice. He makes it clear that the power of discourse is used for depiction of ideology and gender representation. The present study used Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as an approach to find out the working of frames for representation of gender identity. The current study analyzed the campaign speeches of Hillary Clinton for finding out her projection of gender identity through frames. The data of the study consists of her opening primary campaign speech which is the Campaign Launch Speech and her last speech for Primary campaign that was delivered in the American presidential election of 2016. The theoretical framework for the present study is Fairclough’s Three Dimensional Model (2015) and the tool applied on this model for looking into the working of frames is the Frame Problem Tool of Gee (2014). The results of the study revealed that Hillary used the technique of framing for projecting her gender identity. She used the fight and family frames for the modification of the boundaries of American presidency with respect to gender. Through her political discourse she framed herself as a brave and bold woman who had she become the president of the United States would have fought for the rights of all Americans irrespective of their creed, sect, religion, gender and nationality. |
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