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Language, Rhetoric, And Politics in a Global Context: A Decolonial Critical Discourse Perspective on Nigeria's 2015 Presidential Campaign

机译:全球语境中的语言,修辞和政治:尼日利亚2015年总统大选的非殖民批评话语视角

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In this dissertation, I conceptualize a rhetorical and linguistic analysis of politics from a decolonial framework (Mignolo, 2011; Smith, 2012). My analysis draws on classical rhetoric (Aristotle, 2007), cultural rhetoric (Mao, 2014; Powell, et al., 2014; Yankah, 1995), and linguistics (Chilton, 2004) to reveal the different ways ideological and hegemonic struggles are discursively constructed in Nigerian political campaign discourse. The data for this study come from two speeches delivered by former President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 electoral campaign. This includes his declaration-of-intent speech and his speech marking the commencement of his formal campaign activities. My research demonstrates the richness of conceptualizing political discourse within its immediate and larger contexts and the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary approach---which I call an integrationist approach---in unmasking the different forms of hegemonic struggle in discourse. Analysis of linguistic elements such as tenses, indexicals, and cultural metaphors and the rhetorical elements of apologia, apologies, enthymemes, call-and-response, and fictive kinship terms such as "my brother and sister" reveals that hegemonic discourse in a Nigerian context is neither autonomous, nor flowing from a single dominant power, but constituted by multiple, heteroglossic and complex processes that connect the local and the global. To this end, my analysis focuses on a dual critique of local and colonial forms of hegemonic powers that are now codified in the overall discourse of globalization. This dual orientation is necessary because the social struggles below and above the nation-state are strategic spaces of political intervention that might be ignored when the focus of the analysis privileges just the nation-state. The findings present the merits of combining decolonial epistemologies with the perspectives of linguistics and rhetoric in the analysis of politics. Particularly, such approaches have the potentials to open up ways of knowing that would otherwise be taken for granted or completely marginalized based on our positionality as academics. The awareness of the diversity of cultural ways of knowing and theorizing encourages us to learn not only from dominant Western systems of knowledge, but more inclusively from culturally different, historically marginalized ways of thinking and knowing.
机译:在这篇论文中,我从非殖民主义的框架中对政治的修辞学和语言学分析进行了概念化(Mignolo,2011; Smith,2012)。我的分析借鉴了古典修辞学(亚里士多德,2007年),文化修辞学(Mao,2014年; Powell等人,2014年; Yankah,1995年)和语言学(Chilton,2004年),揭示了意识形态和霸权主义斗争的不同方式建构了尼日利亚的政治运动话语。这项研究的数据来自尼日利亚前总统古德勒克·乔纳森(Goodluck Jonathan)在2015年竞选期间发表的两次演讲。这包括他的意向声明演讲和他正式竞选活动开始的演讲。我的研究表明,在直接和更大的语境中将政治话语概念化的丰富性,以及跨学科方法(我称之为整合主义方法)的有效性,以揭示话语中霸权斗争的不同形式。对时态,索引和文化隐喻之类的语言元素进行分析,并向道歉,道歉,语素,呼唤和虚构亲属关系(如“我的兄弟和姐妹”)等修辞元素进行分析,发现尼日利亚语境下的霸权话语它既不是自治的,也不是由一个单一的主导力量产生的,而是由多个将本地与全球联系起来的,杂散的,复杂的过程构成的。为此,我的分析集中于对地方和殖民形式的霸权的双重批判,这些霸权现在已被编入全球化的整体论述中。这种双重取向是必要的,因为在民族国家上下的社会斗争是政治干预的战略空间,当分析的重点仅赋予民族国家特权时,这些战略空间可能会被忽略。这些发现提出了在政治分析中结合殖民主义认识论与语言学和修辞学观点的优点。尤其是,这种方法有可能开辟基于我们作为学者所处位置的认识方式,否则将被视为理所当然或完全边缘化的方式。对文化了解和理论化方式多样性的认识鼓励我们不仅从主流的西方知识体系中学习,而且更广泛地从文化上不同的,在历史上被边缘化的思维和知识中学习。

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  • 作者

    Ahmed, Yunana.;

  • 作者单位

    Michigan Technological University.;

  • 授予单位 Michigan Technological University.;
  • 学科 Linguistics.;Rhetoric.;African studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2017
  • 页码 270 p.
  • 总页数 270
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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