CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (CDA) OF PROMINENT POLITICAL FIGURES’ SPEECHES AND INTERVIEWS

Abstract

The role of a language has been a touchstone of prominent figures throughout the ages. For Critical Discourse Analysts (CDA), to produce the meaning and the contextual interpretations of any genre of speeches or interviews is a complex practice in the field. They scrutinize and examine the contextual meanings of the utterances of the discourses made by the speakers based on social, political, regional, and cultural backgrounds. The experts of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) are seriously occupied with the language and its effects. The critical studies follow such discourses and narratives to evaluate the misrepresentations of such ideologies and discrimination via the talks and the texts. The purpose of the study is to critically analyze some of the selected portions of the speeches and interviews of Pakistani politicians and the aftermaths of such talks on the international platform. Moreover, the speeches and interviews are taken on the board to see the contextual meanings and their effects based on their ideologies, especially in Pakistani society.