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The Legitimation Strategies by the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, in His Political Speeches Regarding the Aging Society (87006)
Session Chair: Anlin Zhuang
Thursday, 31 October 2024 09:40
Session: Session 1
Room: Room 108
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
The former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, declared that Japan has been facing a national crisis regarding the aging society. This kind of demographic transition affects several aspects of life, namely economic, health, and social culture. This matter was delivered during his speeches when in power. The former Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, applied several legitimation strategies to achieve his political purposes, related to the aging society. These legitimation strategies were required to gain the public trust, to maintain the political stability, and to create the social changes. Speeches delivered in the presence of the members of Diet, Japanese national legislature, showed a language function as a means to control the people. This statement is in line with an opinion of Bordieu (2001) in which language is a symbol of power. This qualitative research used the applied linguistic perspective with the Critical Discourse Analysis approach to explain the relation among language, ideology, and power. Theories selected were the legitimation strategy by Leeuwen & Wodak (1999), Leeuwen (2008), Systemic Functional Linguistics by Halliday & Matthiessen (2014), and Japanese grammar. The analyzed linguistic features were adjusted to the found legitimation strategies.
Authors:
Eka Marthanty Indah Lestari, The University of Indonesia, Indonesia
About the Presenter(s)
Eka Marthanty Indah Lestari (Doctoral Student, Department of Linguistics, Universitas Indonesia)
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