The aim of the paper was to conduct Critical Discourse Analysis of political discourse of three
High Representatives stationed in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the period 2006 – 2010. In order to
carry out the envisaged analysis, the key tool for language description was Systemic Functional
Grammar. The theory elaborates significance of language in everyday life and its role in the
construction of meanings. The analytical framework for CDA consisted of three stages: description,
interpretation and explanation. The paper shows that CDA approach to language analysis and SFG
descriptive language tools provide a valuable platform for investigations of language in context. The
findings highlight different communicative models which emerge as a result of lexico-grammatical
choices that political actors make in specific contexts and under specific circumstances.
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