THE DISCRIMINATION OF ‘BLACK’: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF OPERA’S INTERVIEW WITH BARAK OBAMA

A critical discourse analysis was applied to a short interview to reveal the hidden goals behinds these simple questions and replies. Both Opera and Obama were successful in including direct and indirect strategies in their turns. Van Valin’s model was used as a model for finding out these ideologies used. Blackness, whiteness, racism, race discrimination, and racialization were focused on whether Clinton or Obama is regarded black enough than the other since ‘black’ is usually used out of the context of colour reference. The ideology of change evidently focused on his two subsequent campaigns, Obama covered both changes local and international, with their different senses and domains.