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Abstract
The present study aims primarily at investigating words of “construction” and “reconstruction” (lexemes of peace) in the formal speeches of the Egyptian president Abdulfattah El-Sisi in an eight-year span of time, from 2014 to 2021. This dissertation attempts to shed light not only on the contextual use of the antonyms, “destruction” and “construction”, but it also underpins quantitative analysis through the current methods of corpus linguistics. As such, the researcher has deployed a corpus-based approach in collecting, encoding, and processing 159 presidential speeches over the stated period (158.377 words and 172.197 tokens). Further, semantic fields and collocational networks are identified and compared statistically. Results have shown a significant propensity of adopting reconstruction and construction notions, including their relevant collocation network, textually and therefore ideationally at the expense of destruction concept which in most cases surfaces euphemistically through the noun “conflict”. Such results, so far, have indicated a positive sociopolitical mindset the Egyptian president possesses and moreover reveal national and international fair dealing on arising issues.