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Abstract
This study attempts to provide a critical discourse analysis to political discourse in
Tom Stoppard’s trilogy the Coast of utopia. Methodologically, critical discourse
analysis offers a process that can illuminate presentations within language, providing
a systematic set of inquiries in order to analyze the textual and discursive elements
and relate them to a wider social and political context. The main approach in this
study is Norman Fairclough’s model of critical discourse Analysis (CDA) 1989. The
model consists of three levels textual/ descriptive analysis, interpretative/ discursive
analysis, and Explanation. The model is applied on each play respectively. The
findings of the study reveal the functions of the various types of verb processes. Also,
it reveals the role of passivization in thematizing the role of patient/ goal and clouding
responsibility of certain actions. Besides, modality gives authority to the speaker, and
it reveals the various discursive strategies that are used such as legitimation and
deligitimation, topic avoidance and topic specification, and the discursive
juxtaposition of ideal and problematic categories and its role in shaping a good
environment for change. Moreover, intertextuality is discussed as means of creating
speeches, emphatic assertions are used to functionalize rational thinking and
emphasizes on the Stoppardian intertextuality. Finally, Explanation plays a role in
connecting the discursive practices to a wider social and political context and clarifies
the role of media in spreading socio- political awareness.