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تفاعل استراتيجيات الخطاب مع قيود التواصل السياسي : دراسة تداولية اجتماعيه == The Interaction of Discourse Strategies with the Constraints of Political Communication : A Sociopragmatic Study
Author name:
كاظم شاكر فشل
Supervisor name:
قاسم عبيس العزاوي
General topic:
Foreign Languages
Specific topic:
English - Language
Degree:
Master
University:
University of Babylon - College Of Education For Human Sciences - Department Of English Language
Language:
English
University location:
Babylon
First pages:
06T1201 - p.pdf
Abstract:
This work is concerned with a sociopragmatic study of the interaction of discourse strategies with constraints of political communication. This work has set itself to tackle this issue in situations taken from the American presidential interviews and presidential debates. The impetus behind the selection of this topic for study is because it has not been given its due attention in previous studies in the Iraqi academic circle. The current study aims at : 1 - Pinpointing the proposed stakes to group discourse strategies into categories as well as figuring out the discourse strategies in perspective of the field of socio - pragmatic .2 - Finding out the communicative constraints that influence the utilization of the propositional discourse strategies.3 - Identifying the role of the identity of the participants in determining the appropriate use of certain discourse strategies. 4 - Explicating the interaction between interlocutors and the third party in communication situations .5 - Developing a model for analyzing the interactions between discourse strategies and the constraints of political communication. According to the aforementioned aims, the following hypotheses are put forward as far as the interaction between discourse strategies and the constraints of 'political communication' is concerned : 1 - Legitimation ,credibility and captataion are stakes to determine the choice of any discourse strategy . 2 - Situational constraints are the most influential constraints in determining which discourse strategy must be adopted in certain communication situations . 3 - The prerogative of adopting an appropriate discourse strategy is in accordance with the identity of the participant ( his status. his social role and his place in the communicative relation ). 4 - In political communication, when an interlocutor adopts any discourse strategy the audience are taken into the account regardless of their existence physically. To fulfill the aims of this study and test the validity of its hypotheses, certain procedures are followed : 1. Providing a thorough background on discourse strategies theory and communicative constraints.2. Choosing certain situations from the political interviews and political debates under study to be the data of the work.3. Using the developed model to conduct a qualitative socio - pragmatic analysis of illustrative examples of the data under study.4. Employing certain reliable and valid statistical means for calculating the quantitative results of analysis.5. Discussing the findings that result from both of the analyses above. Based on the analysis of the data, the study finds out that strategies are multiple but they can be grouped into three categories based on three stakes. Moreover, as far as the strategy choice is concerned, the analysis above shows that the interlocutor takes into account his status, his social role and his place in the communicative relation. The analysis also denotes that most influence factors in strategy's choice is the situational constraint. Additionally, it is explicated through the above analysis that in political communication the discourse strategies are delivered to the third party. The findings of the analysis indicate that all the hypotheses have been confirmed. On the basis of the findings of the analysis, various conclusions can be introduced. In political communication, the impetus behind the participants adopting any discourse strategy is one of the following : (to legitimize,to show credibility And for sake of captation.). Most of politicians' discourse strategies are determined by one of the following factors : i - he place that the participants occupy and his identity in the interaction. ii - The aim's viewpoint. iii - The material circumstances and the content in which the discourse is performed. On the basis of the findings, this study has come up with a number of recommendations and suggestions for further studies . The study consists of five chapters . Chapter One is intended to present the outline of the study. It, in consequence, will introduce the problem around which the study revolves, the main objectives of the study, its hypotheses, the procedures followed to fulfill its objectives, in addition to the limitations this study will abide by and finally its significance. Chapter Two deals with the theoretical aspects related to the Sociopragmtics in which it presents its prominent definitions, principles, aims and approaches. It also is devoted to making a detailed theoretical overview of 'discourse strategies ' in relation to the studies that have been written with it. Additionally, it presents the concept of constraints of communication and other relative topics, in addition to the concept of political communication. Chapter Three presents the developed model which based on two approaches( kim's1994 and Charadeau’s 2002. Chapter Four represents the practical part of the current study where data are collected, described and analyzed by different methods of analysisChapter Five , it is drawn several conclusions. On the basis of.
