Abstract

Language is a way of exercising power. It is always seen to be carrying some ideologies, purposely or not. So, one essential means of the struggle over power is the ideology conveyed implicitly or explicitly in languages. This means that ideologies are conveyed, covered, and naturalized by the constituents of the language used and the way they are put together to form the speech. Just like all politicians, Lenin has been realizing the power of language and thus employing it as a weapon to promote for his own beliefs and thoughts, i.e. the ideologies that he stands for. The current study is trying to uncover both the linguistic tools and the ideologies they convey in Lenin speech. It is a critical study that aims to show how language can be utilized for specific political purposes and how it can look so natural to audience, specifically to those who are not aware of language power. The study follows Fairclough's approach (2010) as it provides the study with three needed stages of analysis. The first is going to be purely linguistic analysis. The second is ideological. The third is a thematic one, in which the ideas are linked together in a coherent way to form themes. The study ends with conclusions and a suggestion for a continent study.