윤석열 정부의 위기관리 속 활용된 ‘자유’ 담론: 대통령 연설문과 주요 일간지 사설에 대한 비판적 담론분석을 중심으로

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Since the beginning of his term, President Yoon Suk Yeol has emphasized the value of 'freedom' in multiple public appearances. This appeared through a variety of public and private remarks, including presidential speeches, and was interpreted and delivered by media, producing various discourses. The president's remarks are more than an individual's opinion. Macroscopically, it defines the political, economic, and social identity on behalf of the administrative power of the state, and microscopically, it shows the direction of policy practice. The government regulated and ranked various phenomena under the name of 'freedom', and through this, indirectly revealed the values and directions of the government. However, the abstract nature and ambiguity of the concept of 'freedom' makes it difficult to understand the phenomena bonded to 'freedom'. The ambiguous and positive signifier of 'freedom' can be seen as hiding the power and interests behind the discourse. Therefore, this essay aims to grasp the meaning of 'freedom' that the President Yoon Suk Yeol uttered in diverse public speeches, and to find out how it was practiced in subsequent policy-making and implementation processes. It also reveals the hegemonic power relationship built into the discourse of freedom. Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis was used for the analysis. We found that there were three major areas to be defined and emphasized through freedom discourse. These are politics, economy, and security. First of all, it reflected the conflict with the opposition party politically, and showed the use of freedom discourse for the recovery of so called 'liberal democracy', the restoration of the market economy system economically, and for the value alliance of 'free solidarity' centered on the United States in security.

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