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IMRAN KHANS MAIDEN SPEECH A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

18 Pages : 155-163

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2021(VI-II).18      10.31703/gpr.2021(VI-II).18      Published : Jun 2021

Imran Khan's Maiden Speech: A Critical Discourse Analysis

    Critical discourse analysis is useful to analyse political addresses comprising of the communal dialogue where the orator earns the desired reaction from her/his audience. The manuscript studies Imran Khan’s prime minister speech primarily through transitivity and modality, where we realise how semantics and syntax serve the thought as well as authority. Besides, we get an enhanced appreciation of the political resolve concerning the speech. The analysis tries to define the implication of the ideology of Khan's words for a country which was disturbed by severe economic, political, and social crises. For the present study, qualitative methodology for critical discourse analysis has been employed. The results of the study disclosed that Khan desired to show that Pakistan is not without leadership. It is a vivid fact that Khan's speech had both practical and theoretical inferences and through Critical Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics aforesaid implications through text analysis surfaced.

    Critical Discourse Analysis, Imran Khan, Maiden Speech, Modality, Semantic Investigation, Transitivity
    (1) Amara Khan
    Chairperson/Assistant Professor, Department of English, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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    CHICAGO : Khan, Amara. 2021. "Imran Khan's Maiden Speech: A Critical Discourse Analysis." Global Political Review, VI (II): 155-163 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2021(VI-II).18
    HARVARD : KHAN, A. 2021. Imran Khan's Maiden Speech: A Critical Discourse Analysis. Global Political Review, VI, 155-163.
    MHRA : Khan, Amara. 2021. "Imran Khan's Maiden Speech: A Critical Discourse Analysis." Global Political Review, VI: 155-163
    MLA : Khan, Amara. "Imran Khan's Maiden Speech: A Critical Discourse Analysis." Global Political Review, VI.II (2021): 155-163 Print.
    OXFORD : Khan, Amara (2021), "Imran Khan's Maiden Speech: A Critical Discourse Analysis", Global Political Review, VI (II), 155-163