Investigating Obama’s Ideology in his Speech on Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL)

Abstract

Political discourse has always been an area of investigation by critical discourse analysis (CDA) researchers, due to its importance in affecting the nations’ destinations. This study attempted to unveil the Obamite ideology, and how he used rhetoric and speech to convince his audience about the brutality of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) terrorist group. Fairclough’s three-dimension model was used as a framework to analyse Obama’s speech on ISIL in December, 2014.