Formulating emancipatory discourses and reconstructing resistance: a positive discourse analysis of Sukarno’s speech at the first Afro-Asian conference

Nartey, Mark and Ernanda, Ernanda (2020) Formulating emancipatory discourses and reconstructing resistance: a positive discourse analysis of Sukarno’s speech at the first Afro-Asian conference. CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDIES, 17 (1). pp. 22-38. ISSN 1740-5912

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Abstract

In this article, we analyze a seven-page speech delivered by Sukarno, first president of Indonesia, at the opening of the First Asia-Africa Conference where he advocated Afro-Asian unity/ solidarity as the panacea for colonialism, imperialism, and neocolonialism. Our aim, by focusing on a single text, is to demonstrate the role of an intensive analysis of ‘outstanding’ singular texts within the broad field of discourse analysis. The analysis is rooted within a positive discourse analysis (PDA) framework, with special focus on lexical choices and variation, modality, intertextuality/interdiscursivity, metaphorical representations, ideological use of pronouns, indexical meaning, and strategies of argumentation. Through these rhetorical techniques, we illustrate how an independence leader constructs an emancipatory discourse aimed at reconciling the ideas and beliefs of the leaders of two continents that have a common history of colonialism. The study sheds light on the role of key speeches and political leaders in promoting an emancipatory discourse, and exemplifies how (presidential) rhetoric can be construed as offering a message of hope, strength, and inspiration while playing the role of a unifier, thereby highlighting the major underlying assumption of PDA: a commitment to a discourse of social change.

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Uncontrolled Keywords:	Political discourse analysis; positive discourse analysis; discursive strategy; Sukarno; Asia-Africa unity; colonialism and neocolonialism
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Depositing User:	Ernanda
Date Deposited:	24 Mar 2021 05:23
Last Modified:	24 Mar 2021 05:23
URI:	https://repository.unja.ac.id/id/eprint/17194

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