Positive Discourse Analysis of Hillary Clinton＇ s Concession Address  

作　　者：LI Qi 

机构地区：[1]School of Foreign Languages, Jinan University, Guangzhou City, China

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2017年第10期1326-1330,共5页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

摘　　要：As a new field in the Discourse Analysis, Positive Discourse Analysis （PDA） is increasingly arousing more attention of linguistic scholars at home and abroad. However, in the field of the concession addresses, the studies on this kind of political text are limited. The winners of presidential election always draw much attention from the world and their speeches, for example, presidential inaugural address has been a hot study topic of linguistics. Nevertheless, the losers of presidential election are always neglected by the world and the study on concession address is scarce and rare. Therefore, the meaning of study on the concession speech helps fill the gap of the discourse analysis. This thesis applies the PDA under the framework of appraisal theory to analyze five concession speeches with a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches. This study aims to complement CDA （Critical Discourse Analysis） to emphasize positive social construction of political discourse.

关 键 词：appraisal theory positive discourse analysis concession address 

分 类 号：TP391.2[自动化与计算机技术—计算机应用技术] N031[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]