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Journal Article
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Representation of Self and the Other in the Speeches of the Ousted Sudanese President, Omar Albashir
2023
Overview
This study aims to explore how ousted Sudanese president, Omar Al Bashir utilized political discourse to maintain his power and bolster dominance by manipulating his audiences' attitudes, and beliefs with regard to the government and the opposition. It explores the former president's use of the discursive ideological strategies in his political speeches to create an 'in-group' with favourable characteristics and an 'out-group' with negative characteristics. It investigated the impact of the popular uprising against him on his choice of different strategies employed by comparing the speeches that he delivered before the uprising with those that he rendered during the revolt. The study analysed ten speeches delivered in the period from November 6, 2016, to February 1, 2019. The five speeches that he delivered before the Uprising were chosen randomly, while those that he gave during the Uprising represented all the speeches that he made during that period. The study adopted a qualitative and quantitative approach to analyzing its data. The analysis is based on the identification and calculation of the discursive ideological strategies that Teun van Dijk introduced and discussed in the Ideological Discourse 13-45; Ideology and Discourse Analysis, 115-140; and Discourse and Power, 138-153 The results of the study showed that Al-Bashir used 21 discursive strategies to portray his in-group in a positive manner and to represent the opposition in a negative way. It showed that he used the strategies of mitigation, hyperbole, positive self-presentation, actor description, metaphor, negative-other presentation, negative lexicalization, victimization, authority, national self -glorification, counterfactuals, denial, warning, generalization, evidentially, polarization, apparent honesty move, presupposition, negative comparison, irony, and telling story. It also demonstrated that the former president made changes to his choice of strategy types before and during the revolt to pacify the protesters and to avoid his government's failure, in addition to political and economic crises.
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جامعة الكويت - مجلس النشر العلمي
