Critical Discourse Analysis of the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham’s speeches

Abstract

This study works on the analysis of videos’ discourse, concerning Islamic State in Iraq and Sham discourses “ISIS”, particularly, “the first appearance of El-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, in Mosul’s mosque to media and execution’s video of the Egyptian Copts. In fact, research takes a stab at explaining the way ISIS used language in transmitting political views to people for the sake of affecting their opinions. This study aims to discover the discursive strategies used in media discourse in order to shape the social and political reality, and how does this organization transmit its ideologies and beliefs through language? This research is based on the analysis of the two videos from the Web, relying on Fairclough’s model of analysis, which helps us to analyze these videos from the Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. Through the use of a critical approach in this work, we could notice that the relationship between media discourse and power is complex to some extent. This implies that ISIS uses particular discursive strategies concerning political views in order to fit particular purposes.