Critical discourse analysis of political talkshows of Bangladesh

Abstract

In television, one of the broadcast shows are the political talk shows where Political issues are the most interesting one in Bangladeshi people’s life. The politicians use of their language, are setting rules in the society and dominating the common people. Also, the common people set an invisible boundary in the politician’s discourse of the talk shows. This research is going to be based on the political videos from the television talk shows where the discourse of the political leaders as well as the host is going to be analyzed. How the political people influence common people and how the common people influence the political leader’s speech is a matter of discussion in this research. Following the critical discourse analysis theory, this research is going to find out the social and discursive practice by textual analysis. For this study, the qualitative research method has been followed in order to conduct this.