The primary goal of this study is to examine a politician's speech in a societal context. Critical Discourse Analysis is becoming increasingly significant in education. Critical Discourse Analysis is essential in both written and spoken form. The primary goal of this research is to evaluate political speeches and discover the hidden meanings and objectives.Critical Discourse Analysis refers to how language works and how meanings are generated in various social contexts and situations. It can be applied to written, spoken, verbal, and nonverbal communication such as gestures and tone, among other things. The goal of CDA is to ensure that the message is accurately understood.It differs from other approaches, ways that concentrate solely on language use. It emphasizes on social characteristics and the methods people employ to achieve certain results such as building trust, creating doubt, eliciting emotions, managing stress, and so on.

Critical Discourse Analysis is another name for Critical Linguistics. Discourse Analysis investigates how language works or how speakers perceive communication in their context. A methodology is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Using this research, we can learn how people perceive or interpret a message in their whole social and linguistic context.Instead than focusing on tiny bits, discourse analysis focuses on the wider contents of language or communication. Critical Discourse Analysis examines the text on any level, no matter how tiny or large (Vocabulary, Grammar, Register, and Genre, for instance). 

Norman Fairclough distinguished three phases of conversation. "Description" (vocabulary, grammar, lexical form) is the first step, while "Interpretation" (intention, hidden meanings) is the second. Austin and Searle's "Speech Act Theory" is also covered in the second stage. "Explanation" (Social background, time like Racism, Feminism, etc.) is the third stage.The fundamental basis of Critical Discourse Analysis and other pragmatic theories is the Systemic Functional Grammar, also known as Systemic Functional Linguistics, which was developed by Australian linguist Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (M.A.K Halliday).A significant discussion about CDA has been published in the magazine Discourse & Society, which was founded in 1990 and is edited by Van Dijik. The journal has achieved amazing popularity with academics and students alike.

Every one of the studies mentioned above has some problems and constraints, such as inadequate data sets, problems with model implications, etc. On CDA, numerous research authors worked. The CDA model was the foundation for some earlier research that looked at political speeches. The analysis of foreign politician speeches is a popular method used by educational academics.This study uses a corpus approach and is based on the CDA model. The Fairclough model of CDA serves as the foundation for the analysis, theoretical framework, and technique. Certain research rely on the Van Dijik model, while others on the Fairclough model. These voids compel scholars to investigate the intent behind American Politician Speeches. The present investigation's research questions are:

What is the outline of President's speech?

What is the hidden meaning or purpose of this speech?

 Why president focuses on all these topics?

“According to Fairclough (1993), CDA is a type of discourse analysis that reveals peculiar connections between various social and ethnic groupings. He focuses on text and sequential occurrences, connecting them to a wider socio-cultural view of people's discourse to uncover unequal and ideologically structured power relations. He investigates the ways in which the hegemonic mindset and elite ideology are used to wield power in a society.”

“Three steps are explained for discourse analysis by Fairclough (1992). The speaker's knowledge and personal experience are analyzed in the first stage of CDA while taking his beliefs into consideration. Secondly, the impact of social ties on the discourse; and thirdly, the realization of reality and identity by the speaker. According to him, a speaker's identity and social background can be inferred from language choices they make in a speech, such as their choice of vocabulary and syntactic constructions. He contends that language creates discourse and various sociopolitical viewpoints, which in turn leads to the exercise of power relations. According to Fairclough (1992), speakers within a particular social group exhibit distinct relational and expressive norms that are evident in their discourse. This demonstrates the close relationship that exists between the language and social variables. Analyzing the text in the context of social theory of language and the operation of political and ideological processes is the main goal of CDA.”

“Intertextuality is the quality of any text in which fragments of other texts are incorporated into the text itself, according to Fairclough (1992). Whether it supports or contradicts the notion presented in the original book, the passage borrowed from another work becomes an integral part of the original. "Manifest intertextuality" and "constitutive intertextuality" are the two categories into which he separates intertextuality. The first kind is when quotations are used within the texts to support and bolster the argument. When writing an essay or speech, some quotes are inserted in the inverted comas. Including another text in this way is referred to as evident intertextuality. The other has to do with discourse systems and how they produce original texts. According to Fairclough, one can examine this type of text through linguistic analysis.”

“According to Ruth Wodak (2001) and Meyer (2001), the definition of "critical" in CDA refers to the examination and comprehension of language that is ingrained in social, political, and economic viewpoints. The goal of CDA is to create links between the language-based powers and a larger sociopolitical framework. Since writing represents the ideological and identity foundations that are created and developed through social relations, it appears that text is the primary focus. According to them, CDA offers chances to question and critique social practices in addition to highlighting the power dynamics within them.”

“Carroll (2004) argues that critical discourse serves as both a theoretical framework (theory) and a method (how to use data for the analysis), giving us numerous aspects for the examination of a text or voice. Critical discourse analysis highlights the characteristics of a post-modern and sociological viewpoint on discourse analysis. The functional aspect of language in the development and explanation of social connections is linked to sociological features. It focuses on how language functions in conversation and how hegemony and power affect interpersonal relationships. Through the perspective of language, CDA examines the hegemonic mindset and abuse of power. The latter examines the discourse's dimensions and context.”

“Although discourse generally refers to written or spoken communication, In  These Researches,  Has  Specifically  Concentrated  On  How  The  Dominant Ideologies Or  The  ‘Racist’ Ideologies  Are  Created  And Provoked  By  Virtue  Of Discourses Van Dijk (1998)  Demonstrated That There Is A  ‘Resistance’  Because Dominant Ideologies’ Opponents Might, To An Extent,  Also Have Ideologies (Which Are Apparently Against The Dominant Ideologies), And This  Resistance  Is  Because  Of  The  Sociocognitive  Aspects In  Terms  Of  Culture,  Principles  And  Values. Ideologies  Could  Be  Interpreted,  From  The  Cognitive  Linguistics  Perspective,  Through  The  Roles  Of ‘Metaphors’ Used In  Discourses  That  Constitute  The  Political  Stand Or Framing  Specific Policy For Instance meanings and intentions using CDA.”

Bayram (2010) carried out a study. The main focus of this essay is how language and perception interact. This study work focused on the discursive approach of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan in order to assess the language basis and ideological component. This essay demonstrates how having language skills aids in understanding oneself and others. Understanding a text or any message requires context (Van Dijik, 2006).

In 2020, Carlo carried out an analysis of US President Donald Trump's political speeches, and former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi conducted the survey. In the 1970s, while Trump was expanding his father’s property business from Queens into aspirational Manhattan, Berlusconi was busy elbowing his way out of middle-class anonymity into Italy’s industrial aristocracy, often by any means necessary. His 1986 acquisition of soccer team AC Milan was intended to crown him as one of the elite, on par with the Agnelli family, who ran Fiat and owned Juventus FC. Trump also sought a status symbol in keeping with the gilded classes and purchased the Plaza Hotel in 1988.

Despite this fanfare, or perhaps because of it, Trump and Berlusconi were never quite accepted by their countries’ establishments, at least beyond the confines of business. Indeed, much has been written in the U.S. and Italy about how the anger projected by these two leaders derives from class resentment. Trump’s campaign railings against coastal elites are sincere, albeit hypocritical if one defines a member of the “elite” by the size of his or her checkbook.  In addition to giving more challenging speeches than Berlusconi, Trump speaks in a way that incites fear and rage by using language that is more universal, sentimental, and acceptable.

“In 2020, Blommaert and Bulcaen carry out a research study. The Fairclough's CDA model is well explained in this work. There was discussion of the key programmatic aspects, inquiry domains, ideology, inequality, and power dynamics. This essay claims that the primary goal of CDA is to use language to examine the relationships between power, dominance, control, and bias (Wodak 1995).Details on the three-dimensional model are also included. This model has three faces: discourse as social practice (third facet) explaining (hegemony process and ideological effects), discourse as text (first facet) describing (choices, patterns, vocabulary grammar, text structures, etc.); discourse as practice (second facet) interpreting (cognitive aspects to produce something, coherence, intertextuality, etc.); and discourse as text (third facet) (Fairclough, 1992a).”

THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This research tool uses Fairclough's CDA model as its foundation. This concept has three primary phases.During these phases, the message is straightforward and simple to understand.

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, gave a speech on October 10, 2023, and the sample for this corpus-based study was obtained from www.whitehouse.gov.

President Biden's remarks regarding the terrorist attacks in Israel.Analyzing the ideology or objective of this speech is the main goal of this research.

The internet was used to gather the data for this study, which included the US President Joe Biden's speech dated October 10, 2023.The Fairclough model was utilized as a theoretical framework to evaluate the purpose or motive of speech.

The most important aspect of interpreting the message is CDA. With the use of the CDA models, we are able to comprehend the hidden meanings.

  The below given main points have been taken/ identified from the President of USA Joe Biden Speech delivered in 10/18/2023, for analysis.

# US stands with Israel (see paragraph #2)

# Strong Democracies and their actions (see paragraph #3)

# warning to the advantage takers (see paragraph #3)

"You know, there are moments in this life — and I mean this literally — when the pure, unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world.

The people of Israel lived through one such moment this weekend.  The bloody hands of the terrorist organization Hamas — a group whose stated purpose for being is to kill Jews. 

More than 1,000 civilians slaughtered — not just killed, slaughtered — in Israel.  Among them, at least 14 American citizens killed.

Parents butchered using their bodies to try to protect their children.

Stomach-turning reports of being — babies being killed.

Young people massacred while attending a musical festival to celebrate peace — to celebrate peace.

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