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Critical Discourse Analysis as TheoryOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
George Bush and Osama bin Laden are representatives of a world which suffers -#102;-#114;-#111;-#109; terrorism and counter-terrorism. Both leaders polarized the world in two parties, -#119;-#104;-#101;-#114;-#101; each has his supporters and opponents. The main interest of this study is not to summarize the two leaders’ speeches, analyze the main themes or topics covered in them, or comment on their content, but the interest is critical, e.g., to study some strategies of Critical Discourse Analysis (henceforth CDA) to show how participants can employ discourse to achieve certain things, that is, to convince others, establish power structures, make people do what they want, and so forth. The present study is marked by an impartial and objective attitude in its analysis of different strategies of power in George Bush’s and Osama bin Laden’s speeches, in an attempt to uncover some of the underlying ideologies and implicit claims made by both leaders. The analysis is carried out within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Political Discourse Analysis (PDA). Some linguistic and discoursal features are studied to show how George Bush and Osama bin Laden employed them in such a way that makes their discourse powerful and effective and to interpret their different strategies for doing so. In this respect, both speakers employed discourse as a tool to exercise and gain power through consent, by which the role of language has been enhanced, only to be used as a vehicle for the production and reproduction of power. Identifying figures of speech and other rhetorical devices that accompany these mechanisms may also be highlighted to help interpret aspects of using powerful discourse, however.