A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Martin Luther Kings Socio-Political Speeches

Abstract

Critical discourse analysis examines the key idea of social power and how it is used to produce social mistakes as a result of power abuse, inequality, and dominance. Martin Luther King's speeches show many of these social ideas. These views and authority are shown either explicitly or indirectly through the speaker's use of language structures. By analyzing the speeches, this paper tries to determine the speaker's target audience comments. This study  focuses on a few selected sections that include patterns and terms that hint at these ideologies and power. The aims of this study is: Distinguishing textual and discursive techniques utilized in the speeches under review
 As a result, this research implies that 1) certain textual approaches are more often used in the selected speeches than others. 2) In the selected speeches, certain discursive strategies are used more frequently than others. When it comes to textual and discursive analysis, certain sociopolitical ideologies are more commonly revealed than others.
 The most widely used textual analysis methods are transitivity and modality. 1) In the investigated speeches, presupposition is the most common discursive strategy. 2) Certain themes dominate the writing. 3)Textual and discursive analysis often employ racism as an ideology.