Critical Discourse Analysis of Emma Watson’s Speech at ‘He for She’ Campaign

Abstract

Critical Discourse analysis (CDA) is an important approach to analyzing language and its relationship with power and dominance. Generally, the methodology of CDA claims that the discourse is socially constructed, and most politicians, social counselors, and speakers use discourse in their speeches and lectures to promote their ideologies, to have a great dominancy on the audience or listeners, social orders and to exert power. The  urrent study has been conducted for the CDA of Emma Watson’s speech delivered at the United Nation’s (UN) campaign ‘’HeforShe’ by applying the Fairclough 3-Dimentional model. It mainly focuses on the ideological context behind the discourse of a speaker, the researcher also seeks to identify the economical and  ociopolitical reasons that may influence the speaker to deliver that speech in a selected manner.