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COMPARATIVE CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESSES OF FORMAL PRESIDENT JOHN AGYEKUM KUFFOUR AND JOHN EVANS ATTA MILLS
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This paper seeks to do a comparative critical discourse analysis of the State of the Nation Addresses (SONA) delivered by Ghanaian former presidents John Agyekum Kuffour and John Evans Atta Mills. Using Halliday and Hasan's (1976) cohesive devices and van Dijk’s (2004) ideological discourse structure as the underpinning theory, the study seeks to identify cohesive devices and ideological underpinnings of the two addresses, that is how these formal presidents tried to rationalize their government’s ideas and strategically persuade their onlookers by employing cohesive devices and subtle ideological discourse structures in their speeches. The text used in the study contains the addresses from 2008 and 2009 of the State of the Nation, obtained from www.myjoy.com.
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