A Pragma-Dialectical Approach to Political Discourse Analysis: A Case Study of the Former United State Trade Representative Ron Kirk’s Remarks on the Poultry Case
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https://doi.org/10.18002/sin.v3i2.5260Keywords:
political discourse analysis, Pragma-Dialectics, United State Trade Representative, strategic maneuvering.Abstract
Under the research framework of Pragma-
Dialectics, this paper analyses and evaluates the
former United State trade representative Ron
Kirk’s remarks on the trade conflict of poultry.
Through this case study, I intend to develop a
pragma-dialectical approach to the political
discourse. Based on the argumentative
reconstruction, strategic maneuvering analysis
and critical evaluation of the remarks, this
paper finds that even if Ron Kirk’s remarks look
reasonable apparently, there are still some
fallacies hidden in them. In order to make the
US government benefit most from the trade
conflict, after considering comprehensively of
the potential topics, audience demands, and
presentational devices, Ron Kirk maneuvers
strategically by choosing beneficial starting
points and arranging argumentative schemes
technically. By doing so, he can transmit Anti-
China ideology to the international society
imperceptibly. In addition, by taking into
consideration the background information of
the poultry case and the Ten Commandments of
a critical discussion, this paper reveals that, the
accepted starting points and the argument
schemes are abused in Ron Kirk’s remarks.
Through the case study, this paper tries to study
political discourse from Pragma-Dialectical
approach and provide feasible analytical
methods and reasonable evaluative standards
for the political discourse analysis, so that a
new perspective will be offered for researches
on political discourse.
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