Stance-taking in Hillary Clinton’s political speeches : a critical discourse study

Abstract EN

The present study is set out to investigate the forms of stance-taking used in political speeches.

These forms are to be examined in terms of their lexical and grammatical forms, semantic and discoursal functions and social significance in disposing the speaker's ideology and position.

Hence, a number of Hillary Clinton's important political speeches are selected to be studied according to Fairclough's (1995) Dialectical-relational approach of CDA, Biber, et al.

's (1999) Lexico-grammatical framework, and Martin and White's Appraisal Framework ( 2005 ).