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Title A Critical Discourse Analysis of Manifestos of Pakistani Political Parties

Author(s) Muhammad Tayyab

Abstract Thesis Title: A CDA of Manifestos of Pakistani Political Parties The present study critically analyses the manifestos of Pakistani political parties. It investigates how various discursive strategies are employed by the politicians to propagate their desired ideology. For the critical discourse analysis the researcher devised his own model by combining the socio cognitive model of Dijk (2004) and Wodak's DHA (2009) approach. The said model is a set of discursive techniques, political strategies and rhetorical devices. So, it is suitable for analysis, how politicians reconstruct ideologies and facts. The manifestos of both political parties are analyzed at this course level to identify different discursive techniques. These political parties are Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan. The research is mainly qualitative in nature. However, quantification of the data has been done and different discursive strategies employed by the both political parties are quantified and represented graphically. The present study is delimited to the manifestos of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and Jamaat-e- Islami. The data has taken from the official website of the both political parties. The manifestos are significant as they are the agenda of both political parties in the election 2013. The researcher has given special focus to the aspect that how different discursive strategies are employed by the politicians for the positive representation of in-group and negative representation of out-group. The findings of the present research illustrate that the rhetoric of PML-N is more persuasive in the dissemination of its desired ideology than that of JIP. Furthermore, it is an attempt that how the features of politically groomed language of the both political parties bring forth the facts. Thus, it shows that style and ideology are interrelated. Moreover, the present study suggests a distinct perspective to the students and academia for the analysis of political manifestos of Pakistani political parties.

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Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2019-04-11

Subject Linguistics

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