Rouhani’s and Obama’s Persian New Year messages: A systemic functional grammar perspective
This study investigated Nowruz (Persian New Year) messages by Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama in March 2016. The study critically analyzed the discourse of these two presidential messages and uncovered the hidden aspects of their ideologies, policies, and background worldviews. In doing s...
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| description | This study investigated Nowruz (Persian New Year) messages by Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama in March 2016. The study critically analyzed the discourse of these two presidential messages and uncovered the hidden aspects of their ideologies, policies, and background worldviews. In doing so, an integrated version of Halliday’s systemic functional grammar (SFG) and critical discourse analysis (CDA) was used. The analysis of data included various linguistic dimensions (e.g. processes, modality, transitivity) of the messages and their statistics. Although results suggested that Obama intended to build a more intimate situation, both presidents tried to inspire a spirit of action, development and effort in their respective governments. The messages did not reveal considerable thematic differences, except some discoursal religious features expressed in Rouhani’s message. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d6188d89856341acb1eb39d706abc4522025-01-31T08:34:31ZengSciendoExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)2303-48582017-10-0151253910.2478/exell-2018-0002exell-2018-0002Rouhani’s and Obama’s Persian New Year messages: A systemic functional grammar perspectiveKarimnia Amin0Rahbarian Shidak1Fasa Branch, Islamic Azad University, IranCentral Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, IranThis study investigated Nowruz (Persian New Year) messages by Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama in March 2016. The study critically analyzed the discourse of these two presidential messages and uncovered the hidden aspects of their ideologies, policies, and background worldviews. In doing so, an integrated version of Halliday’s systemic functional grammar (SFG) and critical discourse analysis (CDA) was used. The analysis of data included various linguistic dimensions (e.g. processes, modality, transitivity) of the messages and their statistics. Although results suggested that Obama intended to build a more intimate situation, both presidents tried to inspire a spirit of action, development and effort in their respective governments. The messages did not reveal considerable thematic differences, except some discoursal religious features expressed in Rouhani’s message.https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2018-0002critical discourse analysispolitical relationsiranusasystemic functional grammarnew year |
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| title | Rouhani’s and Obama’s Persian New Year messages: A systemic functional grammar perspective |
| title_full | Rouhani’s and Obama’s Persian New Year messages: A systemic functional grammar perspective |
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| title_short | Rouhani’s and Obama’s Persian New Year messages: A systemic functional grammar perspective |
| title_sort | rouhani s and obama s persian new year messages a systemic functional grammar perspective |
| topic | critical discourse analysis political relations iran usa systemic functional grammar new year |
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