Theoretical Analysis of The Significance of Critical Discourse Analysis in Language Use

Abstract

The current study aims at illustrating an important approach in the analysis of language use in various communicative events, situations and contexts. This approach is what recently known as critical discourse analysis. This kind of analysis is very important as far the linguistic levels that it utilizes are concerned in addition to the fact that critical discourse analysis can be applied on various situations, contexts and communicative events so as to analyse in detail both the structure and the message or meaning that a specific piece of language intends to convey. The study reveals that critical discourse analysis can be considered as an independent approach to the study of language and is mainly addressed to various social situations. Critical discourse analysis clarifies the occurrence of social relations, supremacy, individuality and other sorts of social bonds through spoken or written texts by analysing their constructions and structures linguistically and non linguistically.