POWER THROUGH LINGUISTIC MODALITIES IN INDONESIAN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES

A Study on Conceptual Metaphors in Presidential Inaugural Speeches

They Want To Eradicate the Nation: A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Attitudinal Language of Presidential Campaign Speeches in the USA and Iran

Politicians adopt a variety of linguistic strategies in their speeches to connect with their audience. To name one, appraisal, as a system of interpersonal meaning, is concerned with evaluation where resources are used for negotiating social relationships. Despite their significance in shaping texts, there have hardly been any extensive inventories of appraisal tools contrasting electoral speec...

Presidential Power Unbound: A Comparative Look at Presidential Pardon Power

Though few scholars compare presidencies, a recent collection by John Carey and Matthew Shugart (1998) compares the use of the presidential executive decree power in several countries. In a similar vein, we examine the oft-neglected power of the presidential pardon in the United States and Russia. The power of presidents to grant pardons is typically unlimited, which fact alone makes it worthwh...

Efficacy of Deferasirox through Bioequivalence Study in Indonesian Healthy Volunteer

Background: Deferasirox is an orally bioavailable synthetic, tridentate iron chelator that binds iron at a 2:1 ratio. The generic brand for this drug is still not available in Indonesia. We aimed to compare the efficacy between the generic drug and its innovator (Exjade®) by a study of bioequivalence in Indonesia among healthy volunteers. Methods: An open-label, single-dose, two-sequence, rand...

Mimicry Is Presidential: Linguistic Style Matching in Presidential Debates and Improved Polling Numbers

The current research used the contexts of U.S. presidential debates and negotiations to examine whether matching the linguistic style of an opponent in a two-party exchange affects the reactions of third-party observers. Building off communication accommodation theory (CAT), interaction alignment theory (IAT), and processing fluency, we propose that language style matching (LSM) will improve su...