Critical-discourse analysis of 'self-reflexivity' across bush's and ardern's anti-terrorist political speech : a functional-pragmatic approach

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This study attempts to approach the ideological representations across the genreic rhetorical moves of political mediatized message in light of Machin and Mayer (2012).

The two speeches are anti-terrorist political speeches that are presented by Jacinda Ardern and George W.

Bush.

The two speeches represent; a) the text chief source and b) the triggered text.

Moreover, this study examines the form and content mappings across the; greeting, soliciting opinion, checking, challenging, entrapment, and release moves (Cap and Okulska, 2013, pp.

10-11).

Self-reflexivity is expressed across the social roles of the narrator, interlocutor, and character reaching the inference-pragmatic pattern in terms of the indexicals i.

e.

, 'functional pragmatics' (Titscher, Meyer, and Wodak, 2000).

The results of the study indicate a homogenous self-hegemonic ideology across; i) the same rhetorical moves across the two speeches; ii) the same Information Units/IUs of the propositional content; iii) the homogenous cognition determinism that reflects communication dynamicity.