»Do not rush like geese into fog!«. Critical analysis of the discourse of a political leader’s speech on the example of Stjepan Radić’s speech from 24/25 November 1918 in the National Council

Abstract

Political discourse is a set of all speech acts that are determined and articulated in the form of verbal formations, whereby their content, subject and addressee fall under the purview of politics. Using Van Dijk’s model of critical discourse analysis, the paper demonstrates one of the possibilities of an integrated approach to qualitative research in historiography using Radić’s most famous speech as an example, which has not yet attracted the attention of communication studies and historiography to be adequately analyzed, interdisciplinarily evaluated, and syncretistically interpreted.

Keywords

• critical discourse analysis
• political discourse
• political speech
• Stjepan Radić