A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF PRESIDENT DUTERTE'S STATEMENTS OF THE ICC

Critical Discourse Analysis of communication in political discourse have scrutinized the use of language by politicians striving to win public opinion and votes. Utilizing Teun A. Van Dijk's (2005) framework for political discourse analysis, this study examines linguistic features in President Rodrigo Duterte's statements to the International Criminal Court with regards to an investigation that was launched against him. This study gathered eighteen (18) extracted statements from twelve (12) online news articles as its source of data from several online news websites. The study described in this thesis combines micro-level text analysis (following 25 discursive devices introduced by Van Dijk, 2005) with a macro-analysis focusing on the dichotomy of 'positive self-representation' and 'negative other-representation.' The data analysis demonstrates that President Duterte made more use of the discursive devices such as evidentiality, authority, norm expression, national self-glorification, and victimization. President Duterte also leans more towards 'negative other-representation' as his ideology in his statements against the ICC.