tailieunhanh - Báo cáo " North Atlantic Treaty - a global document in a Critical Discourse Analysis "

In this small piece of work, I am doing a critical discourse analysis on a global text: The North Atlantic Treaty. The document is global because it is a direct product of the globalization process world-wide where the giant, powerful and influential capitalist western countries with their joined efforts, at first, have been trying to protect their benefits and then, more importantly, imposing their foreign - affair policies on other countries at their own will. Only the application of Critical Discourse Analysis developing on the basis of the Systemic Functional Grammar will help us in working out the targeted. | VNU Journal of Science Foreign Languages 23 2007 180-189 North Atlantic Treaty - a global document in a Critical Discourse Analysis Cao Duy Trinh College of Natural and Social Sciences Thai Nguyen University Quyet Thang Commune Thai Nguyen City Received 05 December 2007 Abstract. In this small piece of work I am doing a critical discourse analysis on a global text The North Atlantic Treaty. The document is global because it is a direct product of the globalization process world-wide where the giant powerful and influential capitalist western countries with their joined efforts at first have been trying to protect their benefits and then more importantly imposing their foreign - affair policies on other countries at their own will. Only the application of Critical Discourse Analysis developing on the basis of the Systemic Functional Grammar will help us in working out the targeted results pointing out the nature of the Treaty. The Systemic Functional Grammar deals with the social aspects of the language with the relations of language and social life which are either explicitly or implicitly expressed. In the limit of an article we cannot revise all the key notions of Critical Discourse Analysis such as Ideology Power and Power Relation or notions of the Systemic Functional Grammar. We just have a quick introduction of Critical Discourse Analysis itself and the process of Globalization before analyzing the document. Other theoretical concepts will be taken for granted for the readers can seek for them in the readings mentioned in the references herein and other extensive relevant ones. The purpose of the article is expectedly to help in unveiling by means of a quick analysis of the North Atlantic Treaty the hidden power relations ideologically carried in it by means of language we know many a time they are implied elsewhere between the lines of a text . 1. Introduction The world has been turning flat in the process of globalization. A global document means a product