Awaken Spirit Life by Sharing Life Struggles: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Muniba Mazari’s Speech

Abstract

The Critical Discourse Analysis is often applied to analyze public speech such as motivation speech, in which the speaker to interest, motivate and give an inspirational response fromthe audience. This study presents  a critical discourse analysis of Muniba Mazari’s speech (limited to one speech about her life struggle in her own words at TEDx) to reveal the concept of empowering women by sharing life’s struggles in the socio-cultural context of Pakistan. based on Critical Discourse Analysis Theory and Systematic Functional Linguistics, analyze Muniba Mazari’s motivational speech fromthe point of view of the language used to inspire listeners, word choice, and expression (body language) in her speech while sharing her life struggles. This study uses a critical discourse analysis method, the linguistic elements used to inspire listeners through the choice of words, and expressions (body language) by Muniba Mazari in his speech when sharing his life struggles to awaken the spirit of life. The result shows In a speech the researcher found that the speaker took pauses in speaking, the rhythm was slow, steady and several times made deliberate pauses during speaking, besides that the researcher also found repetition and emphasis on words that were considered important and the speaker told stories of his life struggles.