Critical Analysis of Political Discourse The Discourse of Mosul's Fall and Liberation As A Model

Abstract

The political discourse cannot be regarded as only words or statements by an official. It is neither a speech nor a talk, but a social practice which includes several parties: discourse's producer "the official", the speech's recipient "audience", and the objectives and interpretations of each of them.The current research will intend to deal with the problem of how the political discourse's characteristics influence the process to control and direct interaction between the two poles of discourse; producer and recipient. To serve this purpose, the researcher will focus on the political discourse of ex. Prime ministers Nuri al-Maliki and Haider al-Abadi concerning two important events in Iraq's modern history; the first is the fall of Mosul and the second is Mosul's liberation.Due to chaos that threw its sheds on those periods of Mosul's fall and liberation, the researcher carries the responsibility of making a neutral criticism on who were in charge of being prime minister at that time by analyzing their speeches academically and scientifically away from impressionism and objectivism. In this research, the main aim behind analyzing political discourse reside in understanding how it operates and fulfills purposes and functions which both always connected deeply with gaining power , legitimizing and maintaining it.The present paper will deal with two speeches; the first is for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki after the fall of Mosul and the second is for Prime Minister Haider Abadi after the liberation of Mosul. The two personalities possess both powers: the materialistic (state apparatus) and symbolic (Media methods), in particular.The current study is a descriptive one which attempts to create and reach a more accurate understanding of the phenomenon while the analysis is based on Norman Falkloff's approach to critical discourse analysis, depending on the point that ideologies reside in their texts. In fact, ideologies cannot be deprived of their texts which are interpreted differently. Thus, the ideological components of the selected group are be evaluated for the sake of converting implicit connotations in the prime minister's speech.The search revealed the nature of the political discourse at the current time considering it as a social practice which is complicit, false and repetitive seeking no serious change or match between words and deeds. Moreover, the most dangerous point is that such social practice "speech" is being satisfied with and practiced. The paper finalizes with a call to put an end to such practice by changing discourse, the political one is the first.