This paper aims to investigate the political speeches by President Hosni Mubarak and aims at demonstrating how a direct analysis of linguistic features in the texts can contribute to the comprehension of power relations and ideological processes in discourse. To bring to light that discourse has been abused to control people's minds, beliefs and actions in the interest of dominant groups and against the interest or will of others, the analysis concentrates on such linguistic means as nominalization, the use of pronouns, and diverse lexical choices. These means have been chosen as primary tools for the analysis due to the fact that they are closely related to the three functions that language is said to perform, namely ideational, interpersonal, and textual (Halliday, 1975:17, as cited in Malmkjaer, 1991:161). The approach defined as critical linguistics is concerned with the analysis of how ideologies mediated through discourse are embodied in linguistic expressions. The analysis of the political speeches of the president has demonstrated that the meanings which people convey by writer or speaker actually do not correspond to what they claim to be saying.
