| Analyzing Identity and Other Circuits in Barak Obama and Donald Trump Speeches on JCPOA |
| Paper ID : 1073-ICIL (R1) |
| Authors |
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Amir Rezaeipanah *1, Somaye Shokati Mogharab2 1تهران، بلوار کشاورز، بین خیابان نادری و خیابان فلسطین، پلاک 120، شورای هماهنگی تبلیغات اسلامی استان تهران، طبقه دو، ستاد مرکزی دهه فجر انقلاب اسلامی 2Ph.D. Student of General Linguistics, Shiraz University |
| Abstract |
| is study is about to analyze the speeches of two American presidents, contemporaneous with the JCPOA, Barak Obama and Donald Trump. The question of the study is “how each of these presidents represents the issue of Iran nuclear deal and how does this issue relate to their ideological and identity context (being democrat or republican)?” according to the primary hypothesis “the quality of representing JCPOA in Obama and Trump’s discourses is authentically related to their ideological origin; for Obama it is in the level of positive identity and Trump put it in the circuits of negative identity”. JCPOA helps Obama lessening their struggle with Iran from antagonism to agonism; while, Trump is about to increase the struggle to a level of verbal violence, antagonism and even physical violence. Obama represents verbal politeness in his speech in order to improve the deal’s face, as one of the biggest achievements of his state and party; while, Trump does not essentially necessitate himself to observe the deal’s rules. The study’s framework and methodology is planned in two micro and macro levels and the analyzed text and corpus is made of two speeches one about the nuclear deal reached presented by Obama and the other about the withdrawal of the U.S. from the deal by Trump. |
| Keywords |
| Discourse Analysis and Political Ideology, Identity and Other-making, Antagonism and Agonism, JCPOA, Obama and Trump. |
| Status: Accepted |