Critical Discourse Analysis of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Speech

Abstract

This research study aims at extracting the discursive structures in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s speech as a Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey on Libya, 3 May 2011. Using Fairclough's framework of critical discourse analysis, the study attempts to reveal the element of language features and the rhetorical techniques .The main issue raised is the impact of Erdoğan’s language on the Libyan citizens. The study is divided into three chapters. The first one introduces the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis. In addition, it highlights the political discourse and speech. The second chapter introduces Recep Tayyip Erdoğan biography, explains the notions of rhetoric. It, further, sheds light on the relation between rhetoric and politics. The third chapter is devoted to the critical discourse analysis of Erdoğan’s Speech on Libya. The analysis starts at the level of the text and moves to discursive practice level. At the end, we came up to discover the element of rhetorical techniques that are underlying in the speech.