A CRITICAL SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL DIALECT DIFFERENCES

Abstract

The current paper is intended to examine political dialect variations critically. It foreshadows that the language that politicians use pre-presidentially is different from the language they use thereafter. Variation and changeability can best be studied within the agenda of critical sociolinguistics which has established a connection between people's place in the societal hierarchy and the linguistic and other phenomena of oppressions in that place. Accordingly. Twenty political English and Arabic discourses are analyzed socio-critically.