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The Pragmatics of Political Accusations in Obama-Romney First Presidential Debate 2012

    Fareed HameedFareed Hameed Al-HindawiAl-Hindawi Waleed Ridha Hammoodi Al-Juwaid

Adab Al-Kufa, 2018, Volume 1, Issue 36, Pages 9-30

Abstract

This study tackles political accusation in the context of Obama-Romney first presidential debate 2012. The participants in the political discourse exploit various pragmatic strategies in order to take over their opponents' arguments. Political accusation, here, is dealt with as a process rather than a product for the operationality of analyzing the data under study. It is political on the principal ground that it tackles political issues. Accordingly, this study sets itself the task of investigating how political accusation takes place in the aforementioned context. It aims, first, at identifying the pragmatic structure of political accusation, second, detecting the pragmatic strategies used by the presidential candidates in the data under scrutiny and, third, tracing whether a candidate's pragmatic strategies are different or not from the other candidate's pragmatic strategies as far as political accusation is concerned.
The hypotheses intended to be tested by this study are: first, the pragmatic structure of political accusation is composed of two stages: attack stage and defense stage, second, both stages are realized via various pragmatic strategies and, third, the use of pragmatic strategies are different from one candidate to another. For achieving the aims of the study and testing its hypotheses, an eclectic model is developed on the basis of various other models which are offered by other studies. This model is used to pragmatically analyze the data of the study. Besides, a statistic analysis by means of the percentage equation is conducted to quantitatively support the findings of the pragmatic analysis. The analyses of the data under study reveal that the hypotheses adopted are verified.
Keywords:
    political accusation attack Defense data warrant claim speech act presidential debate
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(2018). The Pragmatics of Political Accusations in Obama-Romney First Presidential Debate 2012. Adab Al-Kufa, 1(36), 9-30.
Fareed HameedFareed Hameed Al-HindawiAl-Hindawi; Waleed Ridha Hammoodi Al-Juwaid. "The Pragmatics of Political Accusations in Obama-Romney First Presidential Debate 2012". Adab Al-Kufa, 1, 36, 2018, 9-30.
(2018). 'The Pragmatics of Political Accusations in Obama-Romney First Presidential Debate 2012', Adab Al-Kufa, 1(36), pp. 9-30.
The Pragmatics of Political Accusations in Obama-Romney First Presidential Debate 2012. Adab Al-Kufa, 2018; 1(36): 9-30.
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