What Lies Underneath a Political Speech?: Critical Discourse Analysis of Thai pm’s Political Speeches Aired on the tv programme

Introduction Relationship between language, discourse and

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[23009969 - Open Linguistics] What Lies Underneath a Political Speech Critical Discourse Analysis of Thai PM’s Political Speeches Aired on the TV Programme Returning Happiness to the People (1)

1 Introduction Relationship between language, discourse and
society
Discourse is a form of social practice (Fairclough 2001). It refers to every kind of verbal and written communication, ranging from a personal letter to a newspaper report, or a family talk to apolitical speech. It forms apart of a communicative event (van Dijk 1997), where thoughts and feelings are conveyed or exchanged through the use of language. Discourse mediates ideology as well as facilitates the circulation of power in a variety of social institutions. In conventional ways, it helps to maintain and reproduce social relationships, social identities, and existing systems of knowledge and belief, and in creative ways it helps to transform them (Svetanant 2009).

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