Ords of construction and reconstruction in the speeches of the Egyptian president : Abdulfattah el-Sisi a Corpus-based study

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The present study aims primarily at investigating words of construction and reconstruction (lexemes of peace) in the formal speeches of the Egyptian president Abdulfattah El-Sisi in an eight-year span of time, from 2014 to 2021.

This paper attempts to shed light not only on the contextual use of the antonyms, destruction and construction, but also underpins quantitative analysis through the current methods of corpus linguistics.

As such, the researcher has deployed a corpus-based approach in collecting, encoding, and processing 159 presidential speeches over the stated period (158.377 words and 172.197 tokens in total).

Further, semantic fields and collocational networks are identified and compared statistically.

Results have shown a significant propensity of adopting re/construction, including their relevant collocation network, textually and therefore ideationally at the expense of destruction concept which in most cases surfaces euphemistically through the noun conflict.

Such results, so far, have indicated a positive sociopolitical mindset the Egyptian president possesses and moreover reveal national and international fair dealing on arising issues.

This research uses corpus-assisted discourse analysis to determine the intended ideology and goal of President Abdulfattah El-Sisi's (159) speeches in terms of construction, reconstruction, and destruction.

Finally, this paper is intended to evaluate the effectiveness of applying Baker et al.

's mixed-methodologies, which were originally designed for confined corpus, to an unrestricted corpus.

It means that all available speeches were extracted from the Egyptian state information service official website (http: //www.

sis.

gov.

eg)for that period and added to the corpus.

The use of an unrestricted corpus will decrease research influence or bias.

using the CADS Approach, the researcher conducts a qualitative analysis of the concordances under investigation and reflects the ideology and aims of speech.