A Critical Analysis approach to an Argumentative Discourse of the Illegal Immigration in Algeria

Abstract

In this work we examine the specific discursive strategies used by migrants whose arguments are full of discursive struggle while justifying their experience of migrating. Firstly, these migrants make efforts at the discursive level to present their migration as rational and justified. However, with the methodology of triangulation, discourse analysis calls for the tools of an argumentative analysis used besides Critical linguistics (CL) a critical discourse analysis (CDA); it focuses more on uncovering the different arguments available within a data to build their stories. It offers explanation to their discursive argumentative strategies practices by analyzing them in a linguistic, discursive, social and cultural angle.