Qualitative Research in Education
Vol. 13 No. 3 : June
The Author(s) 2024

A Pragmatic Study of Conflictives in Biden’s Political Speeches

Saad Badi Kadhim

Abstract

This paper intends to shed light on how the American President, Biden, can use conflictive speech acts in hisarguments concerning the war between Ukraine and Russia to condemn and underestimate Putin’s character and hisallegedly malign actions against Ukraine. This is the effective strategy that draws on some mechanisms with the purposeof getting the audience worldwide dissatisfied with the latter’s wrongdoings, ignorance, offensiveness and disrespect forhuman rights. Throughout this qualitative study which is practically substantiated via illustrative figures alongside plethora of conflictive speech acts in randomly are chosen samples from Biden’s speech referred to above. This paper, in fact, aims at: (1) detecting the pragmatic structure of conflictive speech acts, (2) identifying the most common conflictive speech acts employed in political speech exclusively American ones; and how to differentiate between them, (3) showing the frequency of the acts in question that abounds in American political discourses, and (4) developing a new eclectic model for the pragmatic structure of a conflict Speech act with the aid of proposals and argu- ments raised by celebrated linguists and philosophers involved in their influential theories. After a pragmatic analysis of conflictive speech acts (SAs), the researcher espouses an eclectic model after reviewing the theories on pragmatics with the observations made by the researcher himself in order to point out the speech acts in question. An array of the most common speech acts of conflictives is also offered after a critical reading and considerable survey.

Keywords

Conflictives, pragmatic, threatening, reprimanding, political

Literature Review

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