A critical discourse analysis of a critical discourse analysis of tweets on twitter in the 20th January 2009

Abstract EN

A Critical Discourse Analysis (henceforth CDA) is a socio-politically oriented approach which deals with language in terms of the social relations through the written texts and spoken talks.

Politically, CDA is seen as a crucial factor which helps analysing the covert and overt ideologies presented by politicians' statement.

Accordingly, the current study tries to shed some light on some selected inaugural tweets on Twitter by the 44th American President Barack Hussein Obama.

The analysis, carried out in this study, is basically based on the assumptions of CDA viewed by Norman Fairclough (1995) who states that "ideologies reside in texts and it is not possible to read off these ideologies from texts and these texts are open to diverse interpretations".

In this case, an analysis should critically be presented in order to read off the ideologies resided in texts and talks.

Therefore, the followed CDA in this study is ideologically oriented in order to reveal the persuasive strategies enshrined in Obama's inaugural tweets on is a socio-politically oriented approach which deals with language in terms of the social relations through the written texts and spoken talks.

Politically, CDA is seen as a crucial factor which helps analysing the covert and overt ideologies presented by politicians' statement.

Accordingly, the current study tries to shed some light on some selected inaugural tweets on Twitter by the 44th American President Barack Hussein Obama.

The analysis, carried out in this study, is basically based on the assumptions of CDA viewed by Norman Fairclough (1995) who states that "ideologies reside in texts and it is not possible to read off these ideologies from texts and these texts are open to diverse interpretations".

In this case, an analysis should critically be presented in order to read off the ideologies resided in texts and talks.

Therefore, the followed CDA in this study is ideologically oriented in order to reveal the persuasive strategies enshrined in Obama's inaugural tweets on Twitter.