ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ideological outlook of the US government on the events leading to the removal of a duly elected president. It offers a critical stylistic analysis of Barack Obama’s political statement in response to the overthrow of President Muhammad Morsy against the political statement released earlier on the same day by the Egyptian Military declaring the “coup”. The chapter aims to ascertain the extent to which Obama endorses or dictates the Egyptian Military’s position and perspective. It introduces and contextualises the data and provides an overview of the ten-function analytical toolkit of Critical Stylistics – the approach informing the methodology and analysis. The earliest attempt at an analytical methodology was Critical Linguistics, which morphed into Critical Discourse Analysis ten years later. The Critical Stylistic approach is particularly suited to the present study because of its undivided attention to language in the investigation of textual ideology and because of the coherence of its analytical toolkit.
