Critical Discourse Analysis of a Reading Text ‘Pakistan and the Modern World’: A Speech by Liaquat Ali Khan

Sheeraz Ali; Bahram Kazemian

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Critical Discourse Analysis of a Reading Text ‘Pakistan and the Modern World’: A Speech by Liaquat Ali Khan

Sheeraz Ali, Bahram Kazemian

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Received: 9 July 2015 Accepted: 20 July 2015 Published: 23 July 2015

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This paper presents some key concepts in studying and analyzing the aspects of communication critically. It has always been crucial and a complex phenomenon for the experts in the field of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to decode and deduce the meaning of a text through context. They examine and attribute language as a social process involving context to determine the meaning of an utterance to its producer and receiver. It has also been of great interest and enthusiasm for discourse analysts to explore and identify the underlying objective of meaning carrying an ideological message based on religious, sociopolitical, and historical assumptions. The discourse practitioners are seriously occupied with critical studies on revealing social inequality, power relations, and dominance operated through language (Wodak, 2001a). Critical studies have actively pursued such discursive practices of power dominance, the imposition of an ideology, and discrimination through text and talk. There have been important insights on sociopolitical and historical discourse serving the purpose at (macro and micro) levels of analysis (van Dijk, 1993). It suggests the use of conversation analysis, narrative analysis, rhetoric/stylistics, and media analysis. The underlying approach may be used to analyze the discourse of speeches delivered by renowned politicians, parliamentarians, and national leaders. Following van Dijk (1993) approach/model, this study aims to analyze a political speech, titled as ‘Pakistan and the Modern World’ made by the first Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan at the University of Kansas, United States of America.

Published in	Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 1, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.cls.20150103.11
Page(s)	35-41
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Critical Discourse Analysis, Paradigm, Social Interaction, Context, Text, Discourse, Social Cognition, Ideology, Power Dominance, Speech, Kansas, America

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Sheeraz Ali

Institute of English Language and Literature, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
Bahram Kazemian

Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

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