Religious Discourse

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Volume 12 · Issue 2 · April 2025

Pragmatics Presupposition Triggers inReligion Discourse

Huda Abdulqader Qasim, Huda Esmail Saleh

Pragmatics Presupposition Triggers is considered one of the dimensions of dialogic inquiry widely used in daily conversations and across all linguistic expressions, including speeches. The Friday sermon dedicated to discussing the topic of drugs, delivered by Mullah) Harbi Tetou ( on March 4, 2022, in Duhok, served as a research sample aimed at extracting types of pre-assumption generators in dialogic inquiry. The research hypothesis explored the extent to which we find pre-assumption generators in discourse? The speaker relied on conveying his message through which type of Pragmatics Presupposition Triggers, and which types of Pragmatics Presupposition Triggers are most commonly used in discourse? The results of this research indicate that this speech can be considered educational. The speaker frequently used interrogative form pre-assumption generators to engage the audience and influence them.

Volume 8 · Issue 1 · March 2021

Analyzing Religious Speech in Terms of Speech Act Theory

Sherwan Hussein Hamad, Talar Sabah Omer

Every Friday, articles were presented at mosques, and the subject of the articles involved all aspects of human life, political, economic, social,…Any phenomenon in the society is mentioned in religious speeches. These articles will be part of religious discourse in Kurdistan, one of the subjects we have chosen for this investigation and we will study it from the perspective of a speech by Mala Araz about condemning the Turkish attack on the kurds. The aim of our study is to analyze religious discourse from a pragmatic perspective to achieve the goal that we have analyzed in the methodology, and we have received an example from the book" Mala Araz", which is in the context of the central Kurdish language kurmanji dialect.