Critical Discourse Analysis Essay

The overall aim of the study is to clarify the independence issue by elucidating any underlying goals and values and, as such, enhance mutual understanding for the viewpoints held by the main stakeholders in the debate, especially those expressed by individuals at the grassroots level. As such, it offered participants the opportunity to make their voice heard on a political matter of great importance both to them and to the country by contributing to the discourses that may shape their nation’s future. There was no risk to participants as the survey and the interviews were conducted anonymously and therefore any potentially sensitive data is not attributable to persons who responded to the survey.

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They continuously construe and re-negotiate meanings, which are woven throughout the discourse that is employed as part of the social activity of deliberation in which they participate. A pragma-functional analysis therefore seemed most appropriate, as it links social constructs, such as neo-colonialism, for example, to how the French language functions ideationally and interpersonally and to how the arguments on both sides are structured. By integrating this linguistic, quantitative evidence into an overall Critical Discourse Analysis, the study allows for a qualitative evaluation of the independence issue, especially in terms of the ideologies or Foucauldian discourse formations that are obfuscated in the discourse of New Caledonian nationalism(s). A closer investigation of some of the significant historical events and their impact on the discursive acts, as produced by the main stakeholders, however, still proved useful, which is why a description of the contextual situations of the discourse was included at the beginning of the analysis of each of the