Critical Discourse Analysis of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan: An Intertextual Recontextualization

Abstract

This article presents Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Tehrike-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).Drawing upon the post structuralist method of deconstruction, this article identifies key persuasive strategies and thematic formations that underlie the rhetoric of Taliban.It seeks to examine how TTP contextualizes the political environment and securitizes Islamic values using identitymediated discourse of danger to the Islam through speech acts that mediate war against the 'ideological other'-Pakistan.In addition, it attempts to expose the discursive structures upon TTP challenges counter terrorism campaign of Pakistan in an extreme manner by analyzing the articulation, interpellation, and operationalization of militant discourse-sustained through the production, distribution, and consumption of the text.Furthermore, it also discusses how master narrative of Taliban problematizes the existing context and promise to deliver revisionist solutions.Finally, article concludes that, TTP's socalled 'defensive jihad' narrative is a war legitimizing discourseconstructed on religious discursivity and sustained through language.

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