Critical Discourse Analysis of Political Comedy Talk Show in Focus

Abstract

The current paper deals with the critical discourse analysis of political comedy talk show. Media discourse plays a vital role in creating different ideologies. It influences the thinking of people and every discourse has certain meanings which are hidden but conveys certain meaning. Media has power to dominate on thinking of people that how they should think and what they should think. And Critical discourse analysis is tool which is adopted to bring such aspects in front of public which were not clear to some readers. Every show has its own perspectives and agendas which are propagated to influence the opinion of public. The researcher has selected Fairclough three dimensional theories for analyzing the political comedy talk show which results hidden ideologies, not clear to audience.