CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF DONALD TRUMP'S TWEETS ADDRESSING THE MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES

  • Elaf Saad Bustan, et al.

Abstract

Technology has proven to affect every aspect of life including political discourse, This study aims at
analysing President Donald. J. Trump’s political discourse (Tweets) addressing the middle-east
countries delivered through Twitter from 2015 until 2018, by discussing it as effective discourse. The
study focused on the linguistic features analysis of president’s political discourse. The study employed
a qualitative research design using a descriptive and interpretive analysis. Norman Fairclough’s
modal of 3-dimensional model of discourse was used as a theoretical framework to analyze the
tweets. Therefore, the study investigated into the detail analysis of how Donal Trump has used
different linguistics features in terms of “vocabularies, grammar, and textual”. Furthermore, the
researchers have also analyzed the tweets from the angel of ideology. Since discourses are shaped by
power and positioning of the socially conditioned status of the president. Besides. This study
contributes to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis, Political and Visionary Discourse and modern
literary theory

Published
2020-04-13