Critical Discourse Analysis of Political Discourse — A Case Study of Trump's TV Speech

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is an effective method of the analysis. It aimed at analyzing special relationship between power and traditional ideology in implied discourse. Traditional always analyzes structure composition terms linguistic features, CDA makes language more creative. deeply explores inherent potential systematically interprets deep meaning This paper will take specific corpus, namely Trump's TV speech, as material, Halliday's systematic functional grammar theoretical basis, physicality, modality personal pronoun framework. studies how speakers political speech use to shorten distance people win people's affirmation support from aspects transitivity analysis, pronoun.