The methodological approach we have employed to examine the language of politics is known broadly as critical discourse analysis

The methodological approach we have employed to examine the language of politics is known broadly as critical discourse analysis. This approach is at once both a technique for analyzing specific texts or speech acts, and a way of understanding the relationship between discourse and social and political phenomena. By engaging in concrete, linguistic textual analysis – that is, by doing systematic analyses of spoken and written language – critical discourse analysis aims to shed light on the links between texts and societal practices and structures, or, the linguistic-discursive dimension of social action. The main feature of political discourse is that it contains mostly those text types which have a manipulative intention as a prevailing one.