Critical Discourse Analysis of Pakistani TV Comedy Talk Show “Khabarnaak”

ABSTRACT: Various TV channels are established in the Pakistani media with an increasing number of satellites. Talk shows are most prominent among other shows as they precise and present bitter facts in a very light way by commenting, satirizing, analyzing and criticizing in much funny style. All day morning, noon, evening, late night- talk shows are shown; even for special occasions, special talk shows are arranged. Among these shows Political shows are most spectacular to manifest the thinking, perceptions, and impact of the different political announcements from the leaders in a present alarming situation.“Khabarnaak” is a very popular comedy talk show in Pakistan due to lofty language, witty compliments and especially characters of “Khabarnaak” criticizing different aspects of society.Critical analysis of these announcements amuse the listener as well as convey the news exploring specific words, accent, tone , indirect speech or some similes or metaphors used by the host. Critical Discourse Analysis of “Khabarnaak” will explain how they criticize and why they criticize. Actually, characters of “Khabarnaak” did not know different linguistic phenomenon. They communicate in Urdu, Punjabi and English, every sentence uttered by the characters have a different ratio of code switching. The present study is based on political and social scenarios through CDA of “Khabarnaak” as it is very popular because it has first-moveredge.This research is purely qualitative and based on the philosophy of Fairclough‟s model. According to Fairclough‟s model language can be manipulated through different social factors. Three episodes are selected to critically analyze thesocio-political aspects that can be identified from the Pakistani TV comedy talk show “Khabarnaak”.
KEY WORDS: Critical Discourse Analysis, talk show, socio-political, communication, lofty language