Representation of the West in Jordan’s Political Discourse: Corpus-based Analysis | ||||
| المجلة العلمیة لکلیة الآداب-جامعة أسیوط | ||||
| Article 18, Volume 33, Issue 93, January 2025, Page 1065-1088 PDF (1.13 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: بحوث علمية محکمة | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/aakj.2024.336199.1922 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Hanan Ali Amaireh  
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| Philadelphia University, Jordan | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| How Jordan’s political discourse represents the West is under-researched. This paper examines whether Jordan’s political discourse positively or negatively represents the West. It investigates how King Abdullah II represents the West in his political discourse. It analyses a corpus of 64 English speeches (57,690 tokens) delivered by King Abdullah from 1999 to 2022. It inspects the frequency of lexical items related to the Western World such as the West, Western, Europe, European (s), UK, US, and other European countries, cities, and leaders by using the Antconc software. The quantitative analysis reveals that King Abdullah frequently uses many lexical items related to the Western World and culture, such as names of countries, cities, and leaders. A close examination of the context of these lexical items reveals that the King positively represents the West to build bridges and rapport with them and the audience he addresses. King Abdullah uses many rhetorical devices such as a slew of rhetorical questions, metaphors, alliteration, and parallelism to forge relations with the West in all areas and accentuate the benefits of collaboration and dialogue between the two parties. In addition, he favours employing an egalitarian ideological stance to establish a rapport with the audience. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Corpus analysis; discourse analysis; King Abdullah II; political speeches; the West | ||||
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