Political discourse
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The Discourse of Fani s’ Poetry in the light of Perspective of Norman Fairclough’s Critical Analysis
Omer Ahmed Ismail, Avin Asos Hama
Discourse is the characteristic of the actions performed by the speaker in a social environment to convey a meaning that is incorrect and is the way of using language in the literary context Mortal poetry from the perspective of Norman Fairclough is an attempt to analyze the discourse of Fani poems. Fani, is one of the prominent poets of the mid-twentieth century in Bitwin and Pishdar, has become a prominent voice of his time. In this research, based on the contextual content of the texts and the historical aspects and from the perspective of the views of Norman Fairclough, we have tried to understand the political discourse. As a result, we have come to the conclusion that Fani has unconsciously tried to deal with language and use it in the service of literary expression and literary discourse, thus making poetry a political, social and national issue for Fani. The structure of our research consists of two parts: the first part is to introduce the terms and concepts of discourse, the steps of discourse analysis between the views of Norman and Fairclough, and the second part is to practice the poet's poems in discourse analysis, which is the interpretation of the content of the text using the historical and social dimensions, the analysis of political, national and social discourse in Fani's poems. The list of references and abstract of the study are discussed in Arabic and English.
Volume 12 · Issue 5 · October 2025Effects Of Political Discourse That Electronic Journalism Has on Voter in The Kurdistan Region
Mohammed Dler Amin Mohammed, Ali Faraj Ali
The aim of this study is to understand the effects of political discourse that electronic journalism has on voter in the Kurdistan Region. The descriptive approach was followed in this study, and the survey tool was used for a random sample of voters in the Kurdistan Region, numbering (688) people, relying on an electronic questionnaire tool that was formulated through Google Form. A non-random, intentional sample of election office officials from six major political parties in the Kurdistan Region participating in the elections was also used through scientific interviews. The study reached a number of conclusions, including: A large percentage of the study sample reads news via the Internet. The percentage of reading political discourse or political discussions by the study sample is average, while the percentage of reading political discourse through electronic journalism is low. The study sample is interested in the media content of political discourse on electronic journalism in general and video clips in particular. The study sample's trust in the political discourse of the electronic press is satisfactory, and the percentage of criticism directed by the study sample towards the political discourse of electronic press is high. The political discourses published in electronic journalism had a moderate influence on study samples’ voting decisions for candidates or party lists .Finally, the study found that political discourse published in electronic journalism had a moderate effect on participants’ engagement in election campaigns.
Volume 12 · Issue 2 · April 2025Fallacies Arguments in Political Discourse
Qais Kakl Tofiq, Choli Asaad Jarad
This research focuses on the subject of Fallacy in argumentation as one of the discourse mechanisms which speaker using it in order to obtain his objective. The political discourse as well depends on some arguments including Fallacy in order to reach its audiences. Fallacy is representing the negative side of using arguments, for the reason that it can influence audiences due to its conviction function. This research is selected those fallacies inside two discourse samples in this research, then tried to find out the comparison between them. The discourses are chosen during election campaign as one of the most interesting topics to analysis for this reason the research approaches TV interview which is containing the most effective messages in the election campaign. In this research, which relies on descriptive theory-statistical analysis (analysis Statistic), it appears that Fallacy is used as an argumentative mechanism and the discourse (New Generation) has the highest rate of use, while the discourse (KDP) used the most types of Fallacy.