An Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse in the Remarks

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Outline1. Purposes of the study2. Methodology

3. The results

4. Conclusion


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Purposes of the study

The aim of the present paper:to clarify the lexicon categories and

the pattern that was use on the diplomatic

discourses of Hillary Clinton, the secretary

of state.


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Methodology

In this study; two speeches of HillaryClinton are selected from the website of U.S.

Department Of State: http://www.state.gov.

The date of the speeches was 7 June

2012 and 27 September 2012 respectively.

Data collections


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Methodology

- Tropes, which is a freeware text analyzeprogram, help analyze the text data and codedinto manageable content categories.

Instruments

- MAXQDA, was used in counting and word frequency


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Methodology

- Discourse Schematic was adapt from thestudy on international diplomacy discourse byRay T. Donahue and Michael H. Prosser.

Instruments

- The Coherence or textual semantics frameworkwas adapted from Wodak (1986) which will help tounderstand the relationship between within context.


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The results

1. Discourse analysis concepts: Discourse Schematicwhich is coherent between two speeches


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The results

Salutation

(1) Thank you very much, Ahmet, and once again,thank you for hosting us in this beautiful city and forbeing a steadfast champion of this forum

(2) America and our partners have more than doubledthe number of people who get AIDS drugs. Well soon

cut maternal mortality by a quarter.How? The answer may surprise you.


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The results

Introduction (move to the body)

(1) In recent years, the international communityhas made important strides in the fight againstviolent extremism in all its forms.

(2) When I became Secretary of State, I asked ourdiplomats and development experts:Howcan we do better?


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The results

Summoning cooperation (Body)

(1) First, we have to continue working together todefeat extremist ideology, blunt the spread

(2) together, we made concrete commitments on

five specific strategiesfrom focusing our funding onthe hardest-hit populations of radicalization,and slow the flow of recruits to terrorist networks.


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The results

Conclusion

(1) All of us share a commitment to take on thischallenge, and the United States is very proud tocontinue working with you to further our commonefforts. Thank you very much.

(2) In short, Americas investments in global health are

saving lives. They are making us more secure, andadvancing our values. But it is a shared responsibility.


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The results

- The rhetoric pro-forms; we, our, you, they, themare ranked in the first top-ten

- In speech (1), the speech style shown in Enunciative;

setting some influence, or revealing a point of view.


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The results

- Most of the words in speech (1) were into

the Politics & society category which show the high

used of word in Law & Justice sub-category that

alsoindicate the relation to crimesNeed, terrorist, terrorisms, counterterrorism,countries, law, states, rule, international,

strengthening, cooperation, understand,education, extremism, violent, center, and al-qaida.


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The results

Which most of the words, were into the Health, life and

casualties category, show the high used of word inMedicine & health sub-category.Health, global, aids, work, partners, donors,

diplomacy, investments, plan, program,Malaria, HIV, sustainable, and do.


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The results

The word choices in both speeches are serve

the purpose of the requirement of thesediplomatic discourses.


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ConclusionDiscourse Analysis Concepts:

Summarize the Features of Hillary Clinton's Speeches.

- Opening salutations in speeches

- Introduction

- Summoning cooperation- Conclusion


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ConclusionSummarize Lexicon Categories of Both HillaryClinton's Speeches.First speech:

- Most of lexicon used in the discourse was in Health,Life and Causalities categorySecond speech

- Most of lexicon used in the discourse was inPolitics & Society category


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