Critical Discourse Analysis of U.S Vice President Kamala Harris’ Press Remarks during Official Visit to Vietnam in 2021

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the ideology of the U.S Vice President Kalama Harris’ press remark during her official visit to Vietnam in 2021. The research adopts Norman Fairclough’s framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as the main theoretical approach. Thus, the authors strictly followed Fairclough’s model with its three stages, i.e., textual description, interpretation, and explanation, which are carried out simultaneously. Moreover, qualitative and quantitative research methods were employed for this research. The findings of the study show that Vice President Harris aims at affecting Vietnam’s approval for Joe Biden’s administration’s plans and foreign policy, improving bilateral relations between the U.S and Vietnam, cooperating to deal with crises such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, and committing to securing a stable, peaceful Indo-Pacific and Southeast Asia region.