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FELIX O. ALFELOR SR. FOUNDATION COLLEGE, INC.

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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

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Year & Section: Week no.: 18

LEARNING ACTIVITY NO. 16

A. Discourse analysis guidelines

 Apply the Discourse Analysis method in analyzing the excerpt from the Third State of
the Nation speech of President Rodrigo Duterte.
 Focus on vocabulary and grammar as shown below.
 Follow the simplified version.
a. Rationale – This part explain the reason why the analysis is done. Limit your
answer to not fewer than 100 words.
b. Body – this part contains the analysis of the excerpt. Limit your answer to not
more than 400 words.

The focus of the discourse analysis

Vocabulary Words and phrases can be analysed for ideological associations, formality
and euphemistic and metaphorical content.

Grammar The way that sentences are constructed (e.g. verb tenses, active or passive
construction and use of imperatives and questions) can reveal aspects of
the intended meaning.

Excerpt from the Third State of the Nation speech of President Rodrigo Duterte.

“You worry about the present; I am concerned [about] both the present and the future.
[Applause] worry about the future because I know what crimes can do to the youth of this
country. If not stopped, crimes can make human cesspools of succeeding generations. I will not
allow it to happen. Not during my term [applause]

Time and again, I have stressed that corruption must stop. [applause] Corruption is like a
leech that bleeds the government of funds programmed for its infrastructure and other social
development projects. It saps the morale or the morale of dedicated and hones government
workers.

Corruption destroys those who succumb to its temptation and eventually it is the innocent
who will suffer and bear its horrible consequences.