Before a president practically begins his four-year term of office in Iran, a formal inaugural ceremony is held in the parliament. Being attended by national dignitaries and representatives from other countries, the inauguration of Iran's seventh president, Hasan Rouhani, was spectacular in several respects. The current study aimed at investigating the generic structure and rhetorical moves tha...

This qualitative study examines the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s policy integrating Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into education system under country’s Vision 2030 sustainable development strategy. The specifically asks: how is ESD in presented discourses government documents and written media? two types documents, namely official published by governmental entities involved planning ...

This study aimed to analyze the voice of recipients professional sports teams’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis (CDA) was adopted and analyzed 275 tweets from every NBA team that included #NBATogether hashtag March 20th April 20<sup>th</sup>, 2020. Results suggested public mostly complied with discourses created by teams, but...

This study highlighted the value and appropriateness of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in examination national speeches political leaders for policy pronouncements. The purpose this was to investigate interplay among power, ideology, language mechanisms deployed discourses some notable capture reality, manipulate, persuade shape audience (citizenry) action. underscored capability discourse a...

The critical study of political discourse has up until very recently rested solely within the domain of the social sciences. Working within a linguistics framework, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), in particular Fairclough (Fairclough 1989, 1995a, 1995b, 2001; Fairclough and Wodak 1997), has been heavily influenced by Foucault. 2 The linguistic theory that CDA and critical linguistics especia...

this study takes a critical discourse analysis approach to investigate the linguistic representation of male and female social actors and construction of gender identities in the interchange third edition. the analytical models used are van leeuwen's (1996) framework and halliday's transitivity model (halliday & matthiessen, 2004). the findings of this study indicated a differential represe...

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) explores the role of discourse structures in constituting social inequality. Metaphorical structure, however, has received relatively little attention in explicit CDA. The paper aims to redress this by developing a coherent theoretical framework for CDA and metaphor. This framework adopts conceptual blending theory over conceptual metaphor theory, where the lat...