Power Relations Identified Through Gestural Aspects
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التفويض، تعابير الوجه، الإيماءات، الأوضاع , السلطةAbstract
Power is exercised through using different gestural aspect which accumulate and emphasize the verbal meaning. This paper presents the types of power relations interwoven between political discourse and gestural aspects, their meanings and interpretations. The paper addresses the problem that even when texts are essentially verbal, talk is portrayed through gestures and postures, facial expressions, and body movement, to such an extent that it cannot be properly understood without reference to these nonverbal features. The paper aims to investigate the types of power relations holding between Obama and the host Jay Leno identified through gestures and postures that as framed in political contexts. The sample involves two interviews with the President of the United States Back Obama in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno during the years (2009 and 2011). The analysis is conducted through French and Raven's (1959) five bases of power are to be identified relying Fairclough’s (2003) model of critical discourse analysis based on Halliday's (1985, 1994, 2004) systematic functional linguistis approach and a combination of the non-verbal models (Ekman, 2003; Ekman & Friensen, 1969, 1976; Dimitrius & Mazzarella, 1998; Lardner, 2002; McNeil, 1992; Neirnberg & Calero, 1971; Pease & Pease, 2004). The article concludes that as a politician, Obama exercises asymmetrical power relation with host despite the non-political environment and frames his gestural aspects to achieve his political ideologies.
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