CDA PERSPECTIVE ON THE REPRESENTATION OF POLITICAL ACTORS IN BIH IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF THE EU REPRESENTATIVES IN BIH
CDA PERSPECTIVE ON THE REPRESENTATION OF POLITICAL ACTORS IN BIH IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF THE EU REPRESENTATIVES IN BIH

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the role of language in a specific socio-political context. It offers a critical approach regarding the representation of political actors in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in press releases of the Office of the High Representative in BiH, for the period 2006 - 2011. The aim of the linguistic examination is to analyse the notion of the power imbalance between different actors and ideology which is subtly interwoven in the investigated discourse. There are three stages of analysis in the process of linguistic investigation. In the first stage of analysis, the linguistic investigation is carried out by the means of language tools provided by systemic functional grammar. At this stage, the text is analysed at three different levels: ideational, interpersonal, and textual. In the second stage, the logogentic patterns, which emerge as a result of the lexico-grammatical investigation, are further sifted by the analytical framework of critical discourse analysis. In the final stage of the investigation, the text, which is comprehended as a structure realized by clauses, undergoes a pragmatic investigation of presuppositions. The paper shows that the proposed threefold investigation of the text enables the deconstruction of the meaning of the text and at the same time provides an insight into the nature of the relationship between different actors involved in the discourse.

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