政治语篇的积极话语分析——以2016年美国国情咨文为例

A Positive Discourse Analysis of Political Discourses:A Case Study of the State of the Union Address in 2016

积极话语分析是语篇分析的一种新方式,广泛应用于各种语篇分析中。文章以2016年美国国情咨文为例,结合评价理论对政治语篇做积极性话语分析,探究其中介入和级差资源的分布情况,揭示奥巴马话语中隐藏的信息和意义。研究发现,国情咨文中介入资源中的自言使用频次高于借言,第一人称的介入多于第二、三人称,级差资源中语势的利用频次明显高于聚焦。奥巴马采用积极评价资源,传递了个人的态度和立场,拉近了他与公众的距离,从而实现了政治语篇的人际意义的积极构建。

Positive discourse analysis is a new approach to discourse analysis, which is widely employed in various discourses. Taking the State of the Union Address（SUA） in 2016 as an example, this paper makes a positive analysis of political discourse from the perspective of appraisal theory to explore the distribution of engagement and graduation resources, revealing the potential information and implicative meanings. It is concluded that the frequency of monogloss resource is higher than that of heterogloss resource in the SUA, so is force than focus. Meanwhile, first person pronouns are used more frequently than other person pronouns. Barack Obama uses positive appraisal resources in the SUA of 2016 to express the individual＇s attitudes or his stance and narrow the distance between the government and the public. It can, finally, achieve the positive interpersonal meanings in political discourses.