CDA PERSPECTIVE ON THE REPRESENTATION OF POLITICAL ACTORS IN BIH IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF THE EU REPRESENTATIVES IN BiH
<p>The paper focuses on the role of language in a specific socio-political context. It offers a critical<br />approach regarding the representation of political actors in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in press releases<br />of the Office of the High Representative in BiH, for the period 2006 - 2011. The aim of the linguistic<br />examination is to analyse the notion of the power imbalance between different actors and ideology which<br />is subtly interwoven in the investigated discourse. There are three stages of analysis in the process of<br />linguistic investigation. In the first stage of analysis, the linguistic investigation is carried out by the means<br />of language tools provided by systemic functional grammar. At this stage, the text is analysed at three<br />different levels: ideational, interpersonal, and textual. In the second stage, the logogentic patterns, which<br />emerge as a result of the lexico-grammatical investigation, are further sifted by the analytical framework<br />of critical discourse analysis. In the final stage of the investigation, the text, which is comprehended as a<br />structure realized by clauses, undergoes a pragmatic investigation of presuppositions. The paper shows<br />that the proposed threefold investigation of the text enables the deconstruction of the meaning of the text<br />and at the same time provides an insight into the nature of the relationship between different actors<br />involved in the discourse.</p>