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EXPLORING IDENTITIES AND IDEOLOGIES IN POLITICAL PARTIES ELECTION MANIFESTOS A CORPUS ASSISTED CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-III).05      10.31703/gpr.2020(V-III).05      Published : Sep 2020

Exploring Identities and Ideologies in Political Parties' Election Manifestos: A Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis

    The goal of this study is to use corpus-based methods for the critical discourse analysis of election manifestos. Five election manifestos from five political parties of Pakistan namely PPP, PMLN, PTI, JUI, and JI were used in the corpus compilation. These five Pakistani political parties are selected based on the popularity of these political parties in Pakistan. The election manifestos of the political parties were combined into a complete text file. The corpus was analyzed using ANTCONC 3.5.8 software. Van Dijk's Socio-Cognitive Model (1998) was used as a theoretical framework for this study. The results of the study indicate that the political parties use language to exert cognitive control on the public. The use of nouns, pronouns, and modal verbs allows these political parties to transform peoples' ideologies, create identities, and gain control over them.

    Election Manifestos, Political Parties, Corpus-Based, Pakistan
    (1) Arshad Ali
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Athar Rashid
    Assistant Professor, Department of Governance & Public Policy, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (3) Ameer Sultan
    Lecturer, Department of English, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    APA : Ali, A., Rashid, A., & Sultan, A. (2020). Exploring Identities and Ideologies in Political Parties' Election Manifestos: A Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis. Global Political Review, V(III), 44-58. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-III).05
    CHICAGO : Ali, Arshad, Athar Rashid, and Ameer Sultan. 2020. "Exploring Identities and Ideologies in Political Parties' Election Manifestos: A Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis." Global Political Review, V (III): 44-58 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2020(V-III).05
    HARVARD : ALI, A., RASHID, A. & SULTAN, A. 2020. Exploring Identities and Ideologies in Political Parties' Election Manifestos: A Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis. Global Political Review, V, 44-58.
    MHRA : Ali, Arshad, Athar Rashid, and Ameer Sultan. 2020. "Exploring Identities and Ideologies in Political Parties' Election Manifestos: A Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis." Global Political Review, V: 44-58
    MLA : Ali, Arshad, Athar Rashid, and Ameer Sultan. "Exploring Identities and Ideologies in Political Parties' Election Manifestos: A Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis." Global Political Review, V.III (2020): 44-58 Print.
    OXFORD : Ali, Arshad, Rashid, Athar, and Sultan, Ameer (2020), "Exploring Identities and Ideologies in Political Parties' Election Manifestos: A Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis", Global Political Review, V (III), 44-58
    TURABIAN : Ali, Arshad, Athar Rashid, and Ameer Sultan. "Exploring Identities and Ideologies in Political Parties' Election Manifestos: A Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis." Global Political Review V, no. III (2020): 44-58. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-III).05