A Critical Discourse Analysis of Power in Donald Trump Political Interviews

Abstract

The present study aims at examining Power in American interview by adopting Critical Discourse Analysis as a theory of interpreting meanings of discourses. Speeches of American politician are used as the source of data. The American interview are of (Donald Trump). The study adopts Teun Van Dijk’s Socio-Cognitive Model (2005 Critical Discourse Analysis) since it focuses on exploring different ideologies, perspectives and attitudes of authors, in general,  the speaker or writer in particular. This study hypothesizes that analyzing some of the speeches on political big issues will enable the best recognition of the media's function in terms of Power. It hypothesizes that Political Discourse plays a crucial role in reflecting and influencing the community. In addition, there are significant discrepancies in the language choices among politicians in expressing and communicating their beliefs. To achieve the aims of this study, (10) ideological discursive devices are used to reveal their effectiveness in identifying the most disguised organizations of language and manipulation. Politicians employ identical procedures for interacting, communicating, persuading, and influencing public opinion. Politicians' speeches differ as well, but these variations are typically contextual. Powers have been found in their speeches are to control and threat that main characters used in building their conversation.