A critical discourse analysis of anti-terrorism : with reference to Barak Obama's speech on terrorism

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This study aims to use Critical discourse Analysis and adopts Fairclough's model 1989 to study anti-terrorism speech.

The speech was entitled "Obama's address to the nations on terrorism.

This study attempts to illustrate the power, ideologies and identities that reenacted in anti-terrorism speech.

The study adopts Fairclough's model( three-dimensions) as an approach of analysis: description level, interpretation level, and explanation level.

The study also aims to investigate the formal features of anti-terrorism speech through the first level of analysis.

This study aims to investigate the struggles of power, social struggle, political struggle in the text.