Analysis of Political Leader’s speeches in Socio-Political perspective: A study of Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

This study has taken political leader’s speeches which were delivered as a focal point to explore and manipulate the power and to influence the audience to understand their leader through the use of language. For this purpose, Fairclough’s three dimensions theory is applied as a theoretical framework. These dimensions are Textual analysis, Social Political analysis, and Discursive analysis. It is a qualitative approach. Data has been taken from randomly selected lines of political leader speeches on YouTube. From the analysis of speeches, it can be analyzed that power within the discourse, the speaker has used the pronoun ‘I’, ‘We’, to influence the audience that he is standing with them and to win their hearts. The speaker has explained the unjust rules of Government in his speeches by using some linguistic tools such as vocabulary, pronouns, modality, cohesion, etc. From the findings, it can be concluded that the speaker explored the power within and behind the discourse in their speeches. And the power of the West and Islam have also been discussed speeches.