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Representation of the West in Jordan’s Political Discourse: Corpus-based Analysis

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Last updated: 09 Apr 2025

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اللغة الإنـجليزية وآدابها

Abstract

How Jordan's political discourse represents the West is under-researched. This paper examines whether Jordan's political discourse positively or negatively represents the West. It investigates how King Abdullah II represents the West in his political discourse. It analyses a corpus of 64 English speeches (57,690 tokens) delivered by King Abdullah from 1999 to 2022. It inspects the frequency of lexical items related to the Western World such as the West, Western, Europe, European (s), UK, US, and other European countries, cities, and leaders by using the Antconc software. The quantitative analysis reveals that King Abdullah frequently uses many lexical items related to the Western World and culture, such as names of countries, cities, and leaders. A close examination of the context of these lexical items reveals that the King positively represents the West to build bridges and rapport with them and the audience he addresses. King Abdullah uses many rhetorical devices such as a slew of rhetorical questions, metaphors, alliteration, and parallelism to forge relations with the West in all areas and accentuate the benefits of collaboration and dialogue between the two parties. In addition, he favours employing an egalitarian ideological stance to establish a rapport with the audience.

DOI

10.21608/aakj.2024.336199.1922

Keywords

Corpus Analysis, Discourse Analysis, King Abdullah II, political speeches, the West

Authors

First Name

Hanan

Last Name

Ali Amaireh

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Affiliation

Philadelphia University, Jordan

Email

hamaireh@philadelphia.edu.jo

City

Amman

Orcid

0000-0003-1235-9048

Volume

33

Article Issue

93

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53567

Issue Date

2025-01-01

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2024-11-13

Publish Date

2025-01-01

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1,065

Page End

1,088

Print ISSN

2537-0022

Online ISSN

2537-0030

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بحوث علمية محکمة

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1,667

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Journal

Publication Title

المجلة العلمیة لکلیة الآداب-جامعة أسیوط

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https://aakj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Representation of the West in Jordan’s Political Discourse: Corpus-based Analysis

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08 Feb 2025