QUESTION-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP: PRIME MINISTER AND JOURNALISTS
Keywords:
Question-Response Relationship, Prime Minister, JournalistsAbstract
This current quantitative research aimed at analyzing text cohesion through the prime minister (PM) corresponding answers given to the journalists’ query. In political discourse, the use of language plays a substantial role in determining the politicians’ perceptions. Regarding the study objective, verbal responses or speeches given by the PM and the journalists, took place in the five latest press conferences during March, were collected and transcribed. Cohesion principle proposed by Halliday and Hasan was employed to analyze the cohesion of texts embedded in the PM responses. A number of cohesive devices found were then computed and presented into percentages.
The research findings revealed that in all press conferences, the prime minister genuinely provided relative responses to the journalists’ questions, at least 25%. Analysis of speech cohesion also shows that the prime minister frequently employed reiteration, one of cohesive devices involving word repetition, in order to certify his ideologies as well as to gain trust from the public towards the different issues being questioned. The objective of this study was finally proved that verbal communication holds much weight, as for the politicians’ ideology expression or decisions and as for the public judgement. The results moreover suggest to less count sorts of demeanors and non-verbal languages of the politicians.
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