Investigating the Speech Acts of Rouhani and Netanyahu’s Speeches on Iranian Nuclear Power;Evidence

Investigating the Speech Acts of Rouhani and Netanyahu’s Speeches on Iranian Nuclear Power;Evidence from Critical Discourse Analysis

This study aimed at shedding light on the use of speech acts in political discourse, in general, and in the speeches of Iranian president and Israeli Prime Minister, Rouhani and Netanyahu. To reach this aim, ten speeches delivered by each politician were analyzed based on the speech act framework. Since it is assumed that speech acts are able to produce response from audiences, Fairclough's framework (1995) was used to investigate the way thetwo politicians do so. In addition to the descriptive ...

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