LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 5 May 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: Politics and Verbal Coding

Muralikrishnan.T.R

Abstract

Political discourse comprises all forms of communication in and by political institutions or actors and all communication with reference to political matters. Political public relations, both internal and external, news, commentary, film, talk shows, citizens¡¯ everyday talk about politics etc. are all sites of political discourse. A broad field of theoretical approaches originates in French philosophy and sociology that centre around social and political functions of discursive practices (termed Discourse Analysis). The present paper tries to discuss the close affinity shown between language and politics to work out the discursive practices apparent in public political discourses. The features of such writing/speech are taken from various political domains.

Keywords. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Discourse practice, Public language, representation

I. INTRODUCTION

The objective of the paper is to illustrate how the critical discourse analysis plays a crucial role in unlocking the myths that linger in the sphere of politics and how politicians make use of their language to ensnare people for their Political discourse comprises all forms of communication in and by political institutions or actors and all communication with reference to political matters. Political public relations, both internal and external, news, commentary, film, talk shows, citizens. everyday talk about politics etc. are all sites of political discourse. The shift from .Fordist. economy to .flexible accumulation. (both technological innovation in the diversification of production and flexibility of labour), transnational movement of production units, opening up of new experiences owing to information technology and media, cultural transformation due to circulating signs liberated from fixed boundaries as represented in postmodernist theory, are in total a phase of late modernity. This phenomena encapsulates good, bad and the ugly i.e. this creates new possibilities and opportunities for many at the same time this can also cause considerable disruption and suffering. But the entire experience is communicated to be perceived as something inevitable. The relevance of CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis) is that it can expose the transformations in language and discourse favouring such trends. It can enlighten how the discourse shapes and reshapes the given reality. CDA has set out a dialectical view of the relationship between discourse and other facets of the social world.

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Muralikrishnan.T.R
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Aluva, Ernakulam District
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