- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari praised his father, former President Asif Ali Zardari, and compared him to former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in a blog post. - Despite facing challenges like a global recession and opposition, Zardari oversaw Pakistan's first peaceful transfer of power, strengthened democracy, and instituted important social programs. - Bilawal Bhutto Zardari argued that history will remember Zardari as one of Pakistan's greatest leaders for these achievements and for upholding Pakistan's sovereignty.

2. CDA and Politics
By: Rashid Hussain
M Phil Linguistics 1st Semester
‘….. political discourse both reflects and influences popular
as well as other elite concerns.’Van Dijk

3. Critical Discourse Analysis
Sociocultural
Practice
Discourse
Practice
Text

4. Critical Discourse Analysis Tools
Political
Analysis
Social
Analysis
Contextual
Analysis
Cultural
Analysis
Textual
Analysis

5. Van Dijk’s
CDA Model
Text and
Discourse
Structures
Macro Level of
Analysis
Social Cognition
Power and
Dominance
Micro level of
Analysis
To find out how power and dominance is manifested,
produced and reproduced through discourse.

6. Micro
Vs
Macro
MICRO
•Pragmatics, rules of particular
“discourses”
•Narrative rules
•Definition of the situation or context
•Personal and social cognitions (mind
control): If you can control the ideologies,
you will not need prisons or pink slips!
MACRO
•Group identities
•Institutions
•Group-based power
(e.g., Lingual, Race, Gender, Youth)
Social
Cognition

7. HistoryGeography
CultureEconomy

8. Social and Cultural Conflicts
 Original Settlement Taliban Issue
 Modernized Educational Trends
 Improvement of Security Situation
 Differences Created by Cultural Traditions
 Global Perception of Pakistan as an Extremist Country

9. Political Objective of Parties
 Sovereignty Defense
 Law Enforcement
 Poverty Elimination
 Educational Reforms
 Constitutional Reforms
 Judicial Reforms
 Economical Reforms
 Land Reforms
 Enlightened Moderation
 Rights of Women

10. The Ethnography of Communication
 Communication as a matter of cultural competence
 Focus on things like setting, participants, mood, and other
kinds of behavioral rules
 What are some of the rules for ‘Approaching politics’?

11. Case Study

12. "DEMOCRACY IS THE BEST REVENGE,"
President Zardari's Legacy
By: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Posted: 09/09/2013 8:56 am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bilawal-bhutto-zardari/democracy-is-the-best-rev_b_3887334.html
Adjective: Means
ideal
Abstract Noun:
Means Payback
Abstract Noun:
Means Govt. of the
people by the people
for the people.
Abstract Noun:
Contextually
means heritage

13. I can say with some confidence
that President Zardari's legacy
will be written in golden words.
I don't say this as his son, or
patron in-chief of the Pakistan
People‘s Party - but as a
student of history.
I would compare his presidency
to that of America's Lyndon B.
Johnson. He too was an
accidental president. He came to
power following the
assassination of the popular
and charismatic John F.
Kennedy. Much like Shaheed
Mohtrama Benazir Bhutto, JFK
was assassinated before he
could implement much of his
agenda and vision for the
country.
Idiom: to praiseAdverb: Political
Awareness
Subject Clause:
ImpartialObjective
Compliment:
Political Context Active Verb: For
evidence
Adverb: To
emphasis
Adverb: Typical
political
Adjective: To
arouse an appeal
Bilingual word:
To gain sympathy
Model Aux: To
show past ability
Objects: For
Political Purpose

14. LBJ used the political capital
he gained following his
assassination and the
landslide victory in the
election to make JFK's
dream a reality. He passed
America's historic civil rights
legislation and many historic
welfare programs under what
he called 'the great society'.
Despite these historic
achievements and high
expectations, the Vietnam
War and malicious
propaganda from the right
wing made LBJ incredibly
unpopular at the time that he
did not seek re-election.
Possessive
Pronoun: For
JFK
Adjective:
Pragmatically
used
Idiom: to
Emphasis Proper noun: to
signify past
political event
Proper noun: to
show historical
event
Adverbial
Phrase: To
degrade him
Adverbial
Clause: To
defend Ex-
President

15. Today he is remembered as one
of modern America' s greatest
presidents. LBJ had many
advantages that President
Zardari did not enjoy. He had a
super majority in Congress. He
came to power at the height of
an economic boom. He had an
activist Supreme Court that
supported his agenda.
President Zardari came to
power just as the global
recession hit. He had to cobble
together an unruly coalition, put
up with a constant assault from
a conservative supreme court
who sought to undermine him
at every term.
Superlative
Adjective: To
praise LBJ
Adverb: To
Notify Suitable
Circumstances
Intransitive
Verb: To gain
favor
Adverbial
Phrase:
Means period
of rapid
economic
growth
Adverbial
Phrase:
Means period
of economic
decline
Main Verb: To
put together
Adjective:
Means
Reactionary

16. This does not include dealing
with Pakistani's omnipotent
establishment and the
menace of terrorism.
Despite all of this, he
presided over the first
peaceful democratic transfer
of power in our country's
history. He passed the
historic 18th amendment,
gave up his powers as the
most powerful civilian
president and devolved much
power from the center to the
provinces, strengthening
both democracy and the
federation.
Adjective:
Means Supreme
(Ironically)
Main Verb:
Means
substantiate
Abstract Noun:
Means threat
Abstract Noun:
Contextually
means
authorities

17. Then of course there was the
historic Benazir Income
Support Program, his own
brainchild, which is not
only our country's first
social safety net, but is also
internationally praised as
effective, transparent and a
model program for the
region. Despite the
economic recession, he kept
the economy on firm footing
and stimulated an
agricultural boom that
transformed Pakistan from a
wheat importer to a wheat
exporter. He did all this with
little economic assistance
from the West.
Informal
abstract noun:
Means
particular
person's
creation
Abstract noun:
Means Fair
(contextually)

18. He fulfilled the dream of
Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto
by implementing the
moratorium on the death
penalty, signed more
women's rights, minority
rights and human rights
legislation than all past
parliaments combined.
Despite our image as a pro-
western party, he stood up for
Pakistan's sovereignty. He
delivered a daring speech at
the United Nations rebutting
the world's demands to do
more on the war on terror.
Abstract noun:
Means
prohibition
Political Term:
Means
Integrated
supremacy of
country
Abstract noun:
Means deny

19. When our sovereignty was
violated and national honor
undermined by incidents like
the Salala attack - he stood up
to the world's superpowers,
shut Shamsi air base, and
temporarily halted NATO
supply lines until America, for
the first time in it's history,
apologized for the friendly fire
that cost the lives of brave
Pakistani soldiers; a demand
that even the United Kingdom
had suggested we drop
because they too had failed to
get an apology when British
troops were killed in a similar
friendly-fire incident.
Political Term:
Means
Politically
dominant
country
Main Verb: To
emphasis
Main Verb:
Means let or
make

20. As commander and chief, he
presided over the successful
Swat operation against the
Taliban. A successful military
operation that even the military
dictator before him failed to
achieve. By far his greatest
achievement is shepherding
Pakistan through the nation's
tumultuous transition to
democracy. The day my
mother, Shaheed Benazir
Bhutto, was buried, I
proclaimed 'Democracy is the
best revenge'. As a son, and a
Pakistani citizen, I could not be
more proud of President
Zardari.
Political Term:
who has
obtained
control by
force
Main Verb:
Means to direct
in a particular
direction
Adjective:
Means
confused
noise
Title Clause:
To emphasis

21. He has truly given me a
second legacy to live up too.
He sacrificed eleven and half
years of his life as a political
prisoner fighting for
democracy in Pakistan. He
lost his wife and I lost my
mother in this battle, but we
have won the war.
Democracy has arrived.
Mark my words, history will
remember President Zardari
as one of the greatest and
most successful leaders the
country has ever seen.
Abstract Noun:
Contextually
means
heritage
Main Verb:
Contextually
notifying murder
of B.B.
Intransitive
Verb:
Contextually
means particular
moment
Main Verb:
Contextually
means symbol
on in order to
advise

22. Micro Analysis
Excessive use Adjectives to create enforcement in text
Use of direct verb to create considerable appeal.
Repetitive use of Bilingual words i.e. “Shaheed” to glorify
particular personality.
Intensive use of abstract nouns and proper noun to gain attention
of reader.
Wise contextual use political term and Economical terms to
symbolize situation.
Use of Idiom to for emotion stimulation
An informal abstract noun “brainchild” is used to clam innovation
of B.I.S.P.

23. Meso Analysis
 This article was posted buy Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Patron-in -
hief of PPP in his blog on 09th September 2013, right on next
day of completion of his father President Zardari’s tenure.

24. Macro Analysis
 His social and cultural cognition is structured on farsightedness.
 This article is purely indented to defend the rule of Ex-President Asif
Ali Zardari and comparing him with glorious LBJ was show him
righteous and successful.
 His achievement were praised by his son who is not only Patron-in-
chief of PPP but so called successor of Bhutto’s.
 BBZ knows is dominance and authority matters in our system and that
become the motivation to justify his father’s rule.
 He is young boy from prominent elite and belong particular ethnic
group, thus he my effect as stress group.
 In situation context his post was highly important on the next day of
his father regime to claim a legacy for himself.

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26. Questions
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