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Title NARRATIVE OF COUNTER TERRORISM: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF RAHEEL SHARIF’S SPEECHES

Author(s) AHMED BILAL KHALID

Abstract The most significant means that aids in engendering perspectives, ideologies, and agendas is the words of leadership. Speeches of leadership are of paramount importance in the formulation and representation of narratives and ideologies. Leaders use language to establish the ideological standing at the social level. The current study examines the speeches of General(R) Raheel Sharif through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The study engages the ‘Ideological Square Model (1998)’ to examine the narrative of counter terrorism. Eight speeches of Raheel Sharif from Post Army Public School (APS), Peshawar attack have been selected to analyze the narrative of counter terrorism communicated by him. The post-APS attack speeches were selected specifically because the country’s narrative to counter terrorism took a swift turn after the tragic incident of December, 2014. The study is qualitative in nature. The result of the study reveals that the language used by Raheel Sharif has a major role in forming the narrative of counter terrorism at the international canvas. Discursive tools such as polarization, actor description, comparison, authority, euphemism, evidentiality, victimization, vagueness etc, are underscored that were frequently used by General Raheel Sharif. The result of the research shows that the speaker has used actor description to show positive self-representation of his in-group members, and to differentiate the actions of in-group and out-group members. Finally, the study reveals how the narrative of counter terrorism was redefined in the speeches of Raheel Sharif. The study is unique in that no prior significant work has been done to investigate the narrative of counter terrorism through the speeches of military leadership. Moreover, it is an illustration for reference of the application of the ideological square model to the speeches of political and military leadership.

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Publication Date 2019-10-04

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