Open AccessPOLITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SPIEGEL BIOGRAPHY (Versuch einer Politischen Diskursanalyse der Spiegel Biografie)
Author(s) -
Sandra Lukšić
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
folia linguistica et litteraria/folia linguistica et litteraria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
0eISSN - 2337-0955
pISSN - 1800-8542
DOI - 10.31902/fll.28.2019.9
Subject(s) - biography , politics , discourse analysis , critical discourse analysis , criticism , linguistics , sociology , portrait , affection , literature , philosophy , history , political science , epistemology , art , art history , ideology , law
In the present article the biographical portrait of Wladimir Putin is examinedin Spiegel Biografie 5/17 as part of a political discourse analysis (PDA), thesubdiscipline of critical discourse analysis (CDA).The analysis comprises 31 texts:press comments, interviews, diary excerpts and speeches. The objectives of theanalysis are based on two aspects: the use of specific language resources indiscourse fragments (texts) and their potential impact on readers in differentcontexts. The use of various language resources is analyzed at the lexicalsemantic and pragmatic level. The analysis shows that the political biographycan be regarded as a model for the discursive profiling of politicians. The useof certain positively and negatively charged key words and phrases, pronounsand verbs creates a discursive model in which the affection of the supporters isopposed to the criticism of the opponents.Keywords: mirror biography; political discourse analysis; critical discourseanalysis; discourse fragments; linguistic resources; discursive profile building.