A corpus-driven analysis of the inaugural addresses of the three Philippine presidents

Name: Huesca-palmares, Andrea Fideliz

keyword: Corpus-driven approach

; Lexical choices

; Speech acts

; Inaugural address

Abstract: This study is directed to investigate the lexical choices found in the inaugural addresses of President Arroyo, President Aquino and President Duterte using a corpus-driven approach. The main focus of the study is in determining the frequency of nouns, personal pronouns and modal auxiliaries found in the texts and to further analyze the texts by identifying the speech acts used. It was hypothesized that corpus analysis can reveal the political perspectives and personality of the speaker through his choice of words and also that each locution of the speaker can contain hidden meanings which are not always obvious to the listener. The copies of the inaugural addresses in English were downloaded from the Official Gazette of the Philippines and Manila Bulletin. The corpus data was composed of 5,491 words and were analyzed using the ANTCONC software to determine the frequency and keyword list. To further investigate the texts, the Speech Acts Theory by Austin (1962) and Searle (1979) were used as a framework to identify the speech acts found in each inaugural address. It was found that the nouns government, people, country, president and nation, the personal pronouns I and its variants my and me and the modal auxiliaries will and shall were used with the highest frequency in the three inaugural addresses. The results reveal that lexical choices are influenced by the speaker’s political experiences and personality. Furthermore, the speech acts that were identified in the texts were assertives, commissives and directives speech acts. The frequency in the use of assertives speech acts show that each president was determined to build a good image of themselves and their political parties. Given the findings of the present study, it is suggested that corpus analysis can be a useful tool for ESL/EFL teachers when teaching learners to identify the significant lexical choices found in the texts

Thammasat University. Thammasat University Library

Address: BANGKOK

Email: preserv@tu.ac.th

Name: Chanika Gampper

Role: advisor

Created: 2017

Modified: 2022-03-09

Issued: 2022-03-09

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DOI: 10.14457/TU.the.2017.1337

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DegreeName: Master of Arts

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: English Language Teaching

Grantor: Thammasat University

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