Textual analysis of the first article of Sali Berisha, published in “Bashkimi” journal,
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Lindja e Berishës politik - Analizë teksti e artikullit të parë politik të Berishës në gazetën ‘Bashkimi’ të shtatorit 1990
Textual analysis of the first article of Sali Berisha, published in “Bashkimi” journal, September 1990

Author(s): Alfred Lela
Subject(s): Politics, Media studies, Lexis, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Philology, Rhetoric
Published by: Shtëpia botuese “UET Press”
Keywords: Sali Berisha; Bashkimi; textual analysis; 1990; language; politics;

Summary/Abstract: This paper tries to analyze the “languages” of one of the most important speeches held by Sali Berisha, in “Bashkimi” newspaper, in 1990. The analysis will be divided in two main parts; 1- old language- referring to the language used by the leadership during communism and that is similar with the concept of newspeak, elaborated by Orwell, or “ the totalitarian Albania, elaborated by Ardian Vehbiu; 2- “new language” – or the western language that brought to use new words such as pluralism, democracy, human rights, private property etc.; 3- “ technical or scientific language”, words that have to do with the profession of the speaker, in this case, medicine and last but not least 4- “ the ideological/ political language, terms referring to the left or the right wing. The aim of the paper is to create a dictionary of words and after a quantitative analysis to define which language is more important than others in the discourse of Dr. Sali Berisha.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 48-55
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Albanian