Critical discourse analysis of the speech of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune following his infection with Covid-19

Abstract

This article focuses on utilizing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in studying Arabic political discourse. The aim of the paper is to search the intended ideologies and the critical linguistic aspects in the political speech delivered by the Algerian President, Abdelmajid Tebboune, while at hospital in Germany on 13th December, 2020. The study puts these themes in their social and political contexts, with an emphasis on the lexicon used. The speech has been extracted from YouTube. So as to achieve the main objective of the paper, CDA is used as a theoretical framework to explore the speech. Fairclough's three-dimensional model of CDA is used to analyse the data obtained. Macro and micro analyses were conducted in an effort to connect social and linguistic practices. The results of the paper disclose that the speech under study has its distinguishing characteristics and that language was used diligently to reach the intended objectives of the speaker.