Critical Discourse Analysis of Martin Luther King’s Speech in Socio-Political Perspective

Abstract

The article presents the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of the first part of King Martin Luther's speech “When I Have a Dream” in the socio-political context. The study investigates how it lies on the basis of application of Fairclough version of CDA in the first part of the text. Moreover, it explicates the terms like social, cultural and political inequalities in the light of text and framework.