This qualitative research inquiry employing critical discourse analysis sought to unveil the discursive strategies, linguistic realizations, major thematic contents, political ideologies and power relations from the eight presidential inaugural addresses of the Philippine Fifth Republic. Using Wodakâs Discourse-Historical Approach, the study revealed that the discursive macro-strategies of construction, perpetuation, justification, transformation, and demontage, along with specific micro-strategies for each, were analyzed through a variety of linguistic realizations for the discursive construction of the Philippine national identity. The facets of identity discursively constructed in the addresses are the stability of Philippine Autonomy; the fallibility of Philippine integrity; the pursuit for Philippine moral imperative and national advancement; the Philippine historical uprising; the Philippine people power revolution; the political stance of the Philippines; the growth endeavor of the Philippines; and the global connections of the Philippines; Moreover, the facets of Philippine national identity were likewise discursively influenced by the five emergent political ideologies of liberal democracy, social democracy, patriotism, pacifism, and globalism along with power relations observed in the use of pronouns, determiners, adverbs, metaphors, parallelisms, modals, quotations, and personifications. Implications for educational practice may be integrated into multiple academic domains - such as but not limited to - the areas of humanities, social sciences, politics and governance, and language and communication. Discursive strategies, linguistic realizations, identity facets, political ideologies, and power relations may be used in instruction for better appreciation of the intricacies of discursive national identity construction that may be conveyed through educational policies, curriculum strategies learning materials, and class interactions.
