Self- representation in Biden's Speech on Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Discourse Analysis

The current study is A critical Discourse Analysis to the Self-representation in Joe Biden's speech ''On fighting COVID-19 pandemic''. problem of lies scarcity studies that tackle self-representation speeches about Covid-19 rescue plan. attempts answer following question: what are strategies used by Biden ''on pandemic'' . It has hypothesized certain adopted on three levels analysis: meaning level, argumentative level and rhetorical ,moreover each involves more frequently strategy than other strategies. also aims at figuring out positive as well identifying most frequent least one level. an eclectic model which amalgamation two Van Dijk's models (2000 2006). conducts qualitative quantitative analyses. Finally, concludes that, represent himself positively during ‘'COVID-19 pandemic'', president USA uses are: :"actor description", "lexicalization", "national self-glorification'', "victimization", "generalization" ,"evidentiality'' , "populism", "burden", "reasonableness", "comparison", "metaphor", "repetition", ''hyperbole'' ''number game Moreover ,the analysis demonstrates among argumentation rhetoric ''actor description'' whereas '' national self-glorification''