A Pragmatic Discourse Analysis of Media Contexts and Political Messages in Iraq
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https://doi.org/10.70091/Atras/vol06no02.15Keywords:
Discourse analysis, Iraq, media contexts, political messages, pragmatics, speech actsAbstract
Pragmatics in the discourse analysis of media contexts and political messages in Iraq plays a crucial role in shaping political communication strategies. Pragmatic discourse analysis helps to uncover how politics and the media use language as a tool to achieve specific goals across various contexts. This research contributes to understanding how media and political discourse in Iraq is influenced by social, cultural, and political factors, while shedding light on the strategies employed in these messages through a pragmatic lens. The study applies Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine the relationship between language and social power structures. This approach focuses on how language is used to construct social and political realities and how it can serve as a tool for establishing or challenging dominance and authority. The research finds that communicative intention represents a key pragmatic element that plays a vital role at specific points in the communication process. Discourse emerges as a central concern in both social and political domains. Pragmatic concepts of language transform ordinary rhetoric into structured speech acts with normative linguistic dimensions. Furthermore, the study reveals that the pragmatic analysis of discourse in Iraqi media and political messages uncovers a complex interaction between language and politics, where rhetorical strategies and speech acts are used to influence public opinion, construct social and sectarian identities, and achieve political goals.
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