APPLICATION OF FAIRCLOUGH PROCEDURE FOR TEXT DESCRIPTION ON BERLUSCONI’S SPEECH DISCESA IN CAMPO

Abstract

Norman Fairclough’s procedure for critical discourse analysis is based upon these three stages: description of text, interpretation of the relationship between text and interaction and explanation of the relationship between interaction and social context. The procedure for description of text is organized around ten main questions (and some sub-questions) on experiential, relational and expressive values of vocabulary, grammar and text structure. Our aim was to test Fairclough’s model for text descripstion on Berlusconi’s earliest pubblic speech „Discesa in campo“. In order to divide most precisely the values with most possible objectivity, we used Venn diagram that clearly shows the sets’ relationships, intersection, etc. We also added the caracteristics of (italian) temporality. The complete critical discourse analysis must include detailed interpretation and explanation of italian social and hystorical circumstances.