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Fast in Humanities (FH) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Forum Akademisi dan Dosen Peneliti (FAST), focusing on the dynamic and interdisciplinary field of humanities. Published six times a year in January, March, May, July, September, and November, the journal provides a scholarly platform for critical engagement and innovative research that explores human experiences, cultural expressions, and philosophical reflections across diverse historical and contemporary contexts. The journal welcomes original research articles, conceptual papers, and critical reviews that examine various aspects of humanities including philosophy and ethics, history and historiography, language and literature, religion and theology, the arts, culture and identity, gender and feminist studies, postcolonial and decolonization studies, media and communication, digital humanities, as well as peace, conflict, globalization, and multiculturalism. The journal encourages contributions that bridge disciplines and offer fresh perspectives on enduring and emerging issues in society.
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Constructing Moral Legitimacy through Empathic and Inferential Strategies in Political Discourse toward a Cognitive–Pragmatic Model of Diplomatic Persuasion Priadi, Arum; Medi Prasetyo
Fast in Humanities Vol. 1 No. 4 (2025)
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This study investigates President Prabowo Subianto’s 2025 address to the United Nations General Assembly through the integrated framework of Cognitive Pragmatics and Relevance Theory. It explores how persuasion in diplomatic discourse operates as a distributed cognitive process rather than a mere rhetorical performance. The analysis combines qualitative pragmatic interpretation with corpus-assisted evidence using AntConc to identify patterns of attention, inference, and empathy in the speech. Findings reveal that ostensive cues function as attentional scaffolds directing the audience’s cognitive focus, while inferential mechanisms co-construct moral legitimacy through shared reasoning. Empathy, manifested lexically and prosodically, emerges as a relevance amplifier that fuses affective alignment with inferential cooperation. Quantitative corpus results particularly the high frequency of moral and relational lexemes such as peace, justice, humanity, and together confirm the centrality of moral cognition in persuasive framing. The study extends Relevance Theory by proposing empathy as an epistemic variable mediating the affective–inferential continuum of meaning. It concludes that political persuasion, especially within Global South diplomacy, functions as a cognitive negotiation of shared moral relevance, where understanding and empathy become sources of communicative authority. This research thus contributes to the theoretical expansion of Relevance Theory, the methodological integration of corpus pragmatics, and the empirical understanding of moral cognition in global political communication.

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