A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Joe Biden’s Speech On Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Abstract

This study is one of Critical Discourse Analysis on a speech text by Joe Biden about Russia-Ukraine conflict which was delivered on February 22^nd, 2022. Through the application of Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis framework along with Systemic Functional Linguistic theory by Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday as the supporting theory, this study aims to reveal certain intentions and motives behind the discourse that is delivered by Joe Biden in the form of a speech. This study employs descriptive qualitative method which examines the sources and data collected beforehand and serves theoretical or personal interpretations based on the conclusions drawn from examined sources and data. This study finds several linguistics features of Personal Pronouns of 96 data, Transitivity Process of 73 data, and 5 vocabularies that are chosen with particular intentions along with 3 words that are dominantly repeated across the speech text. Three stages of Critical Discourse Analysis conducted on this study shows that Joe Biden’s speech discourse is a medium that is utilized to achieve a certain political goal in international level through United States intervention in the Russia-Ukraine conflict which was initiated by the deliverance of the speech itself.