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Political Discourse Analysis: Topoi in Haider Al-Abadi's Discourse during Basra Crisis in 2018 | ||
| Journal of Language Studies | ||
| Volume 3, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 131-144 PDF (997.9 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| Author | ||
| Kanaan Khudheyer Hasan | ||
| Department of English, College of Education for Women, Tikrit University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Political discourses always carry various messages to the public. This can be done through many tools used by decision makers in order to manipulate or persuade the public. Topos (plural is topoi) is tool of developing argumentation in political discourse. It is a part of any political speech used either to persuade people, show the politician's upper hand or produce successful speeches. This paper will discuss the conceptualization of topoi as part of political discourse. It also studies the usage of topoi in Al-Abadi's weekly statement during Basra crisis of 2018. Protests in Basra were the most serious seen in Iraq during Al-Abadi's era because of the importance of the city as a heart of some world's largest oilfields. The paper also shows how Al-Abadi utilizes topoi in his speeches to deal with this robust crisis. Methodology of analysis will be Ruth Wodak's Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) 2011. DHA is designed to integrate systematically all the available background information in the analysis and interpretation of the many layers of written or spoken texts. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| argumentation; Discourse-Historical Approach; political discourse analysis; topoi | ||
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