Zamaan Tawfeeq Abdul-Hassan

A Semantico- Critical Discourse Analysis of Swaying Public Opinion in Selected Political Speeches

The present study adopts Winifred Crombie’s (1985) framework of semantic relational structuring to examine how politicians try to sway public opinion by reversing moral roles—depicting the occupying power as a victim acting in self-defense and portraying the group defending its land as the occupier. For this purpose, t...