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Abstract:
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In this small piece of work, I am doing a critical discourse analysis on a global text: The
North Atlantic Treaty. The document is global because it is a direct product of the globalization
process world-wide where the giant, powerful and influential capitalist western countries with
their joined efforts, at first, have been trying to protect their benefits and then, more importantly,
imposing their foreign - affair policies on other countries at their own will. Only the application of
Critical Discourse Analysis developing on the basis of the Systemic Functional Grammar will help
us in working out the targeted results: pointing out the nature of the Treaty. The Systemic
Functional Grammar deals with the social aspects of the language, with the relations of language
and social life which are either explicitly or implicitly expressed. In the limit of an article, we cannot
revise all the key notions of Critical Discourse Analysis such as Ideology, Power and Power
Relation or notions of the Systemic Functional Grammar. We just have a quick introduction of
Critical Discourse Analysis itself and the process of Globalization before analyzing the document.
Other theoretical concepts will be taken for granted, for the readers can seek for them in the
readings mentioned in the references herein and other extensive relevant ones. The purpose of the
article is, expectedly, to help in unveiling, by means of a quick analysis of the North Atlantic
Treaty, the hidden power relations ideologically carried in it by means of language (we know many
a time they are implied elsewhere between the lines of a text). |