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An Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse in The Remarks

The document outlines the methodology and results of analyzing two speeches by Hillary Clinton. It examines the speeches' discourse schematic structure and lexicon categories. Both speeches followed a typical structure of salutation, introduction, body, and conclusion. The first speech focused on health issues and used terms from the health lexicon category. The second speech centered on security and counterterrorism, employing a politics and society lexicon. The analysis clarified the structure and vocabulary patterns used in Clinton's diplomatic discourses.

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An Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse in The Remarks

The document outlines the methodology and results of analyzing two speeches by Hillary Clinton. It examines the speeches' discourse schematic structure and lexicon categories. Both speeches followed a typical structure of salutation, introduction, body, and conclusion. The first speech focused on health issues and used terms from the health lexicon category. The second speech centered on security and counterterrorism, employing a politics and society lexicon. The analysis clarified the structure and vocabulary patterns used in Clinton's diplomatic discourses.

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Outline

1. Purposes of the study 2. Methodology 3. The results 4. Conclusion

Purposes of the study


The speech of diplomacy is subject to strategic considerations as rigorous and complex as those applied to armed forces. (Oliver 1951; 207)

Purposes of the study


The aim of the present paper: to clarify the lexicon categories and the pattern that was use on the diplomatic discourses of Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state.

Methodology
Data collections
In this study; two speeches of Hillary Clinton are selected from the website of U.S. Department Of State: http://www.state.gov. The date of the speeches was 7 June 2012 and 27 September 2012 respectively.

Methodology
Instruments
- Tropes, which is a freeware text analyze program, help analyze the text data and coded into manageable content categories.
- MAXQDA, was used in counting and word frequency

Methodology
Instruments
- Discourse Schematic was adapt from the study on international diplomacy discourse by Ray T. Donahue and Michael H. Prosser.
- The Coherence or textual semantics framework was adapted from Wodak (1986) which will help to understand the relationship between within context.

Methodology
Data analysis
Researchers will try to analyze the chosen speeches critically in terms of some categories of discourse analysis concept; Discourse Schematic which is introduced by Ray T. Donahue and Michael H. Prosser in order to understand the speech structure and the hidden meaning. Also the text analysis program will be used to measure the relationship between word choice within lexicon categories and the purpose of the speech.

The results
1. Discourse analysis concepts: Discourse Schematic which is coherent between two speeches

The results
Salutation (1) Thank you very much, Ahmet, and once again, thank you for hosting us in this beautiful city and for being a steadfast champion of this forum (2) America and our partners have more than doubled the number of people who get AIDS drugs. Well soon cut maternal mortality by a quarter. How? The answer may surprise you.

The results
Introduction (move to the body) (1) In recent years, the international community has made important strides in the fight against violent extremism in all its forms. (2) When I became Secretary of State, I asked our diplomats and development experts: Howcan we do better?

The results
Summoning cooperation (Body)
(1) First, we have to continue working together to defeat extremist ideology, blunt the spread (2) together, we made concrete commitments on five specific strategiesfrom focusing our funding on the hardest-hit populations of radicalization, and slow the flow of recruits to terrorist networks.

The results
Conclusion
(1) All of us share a commitment to take on this challenge, and the United States is very proud to continue working with you to further our common efforts. Thank you very much. (2) In short, Americas investments in global health are saving lives. They are making us more secure, and advancing our values. But it is a shared responsibility.

The results
- The rhetoric pro-forms; we, our, you, they, them are ranked in the first top-ten

- In speech (1), the speech style shown in Enunciative; setting some influence, or revealing a point of view.

The results
- Most of the words in speech (1) were into the Politics & society category which show the high used of word in Law & Justice sub-category that also indicate the relation to crimes Need, terrorist, terrorisms, counterterrorism, countries, law, states, rule, international, strengthening, cooperation, understand, education, extremism, violent, center, and al-qaida.

The results
- In speech (2), the speech style was shown as Narrative; telling a story, at a time, in a certain place;

The results
Which most of the words, were into the Health, life and casualties category, show the high used of word in Medicine & health sub-category.

Health, global, aids, work, partners, donors, diplomacy, investments, plan, program, Malaria, HIV, sustainable, and do.

The results

The word choices in both speeches are serve the purpose of the requirement of these diplomatic discourses.

Conclusion
Discourse Analysis Concepts: Summarize the Features of Hillary Clinton's Speeches.

- Opening salutations in speeches - Introduction - Summoning cooperation - Conclusion

Conclusion
Summarize Lexicon Categories of Both Hillary Clinton's Speeches.

First speech: - Most of lexicon used in the discourse was in Health, Life and Causalities category
Second speech - Most of lexicon used in the discourse was in Politics & Society category

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