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"It started with a theoretical overview of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and then presented a corpus consisting of speeches of eight political elites, namely, Malcolm X, Noam Chomsky, Martin Luther King, Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Winston Churchill, J.
This study analyzed speeches in terms of figures of' speech, and interpreted them from the point of view of CDA using the framework introduced by Fairclough (1989) as a three-dimensional approach to the study of discourse (Description, Interpretation, Explanation) and van Dijk (2004) as the theory of critical context analysis..
The result of analyses reveals that while there are differences in the type and degree of speech figures employed by our selected individual political elites, there is one striking pattern which is common among all speeches: the frequent use of figures of Grammar, Repetition and Rhetoric Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis The aim of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is revealing "how language is used for the exercise of socio-political control" (Widdowson, 2004, p.
Van Dijk (2005) argues that the process of the public production and reproduction of knowledge, opinions, and ideologies should primarily be defined in terms of the discursive practices of the dominant institutions and their elites.
Therefore, it is argued that since the connection between language and socio-political context is opaque to the lay person, doing a detalied and ideological analysis of political speeches can lead to two aims: first, to change the underestimation of the significance of language in social relations of power; second, to increase the consciousness that how language contributes to inequality and injustice which leads to power relations and control of people by others."