Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
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description: The Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis (ISSN: 2755-3426 ) is a double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development. It provides a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis. All research articles published in this journal undergo a rigorous peer-review process, based on initial editor screening and anonymised refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. The journal provides free and open access to all of its content on our website.
publisher: Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development
language: en
publication name: Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
issn: 2755-3426
items: What can a combined Transitive and Appraisal analysis of Japanese government materials reveal about underlying attitudes towards Assistant Language Teachers?
items: A Contrastive Critical Discourse Analysis of Pseudo-Ignorance in two English and Arabic Politicians' Speeches
items: Analysis of English Refusal and Request Strategies by Native Speakers and Bahrainis in the Workplace
items: A Discourse Analysis of the Nigerian Supreme Court Judgements on Gubernatorial Election Petitions in Southwestern Nigeria between 1999 and 2023
items: From Device to Deed: A Framework for Mapping Rhetorical Moves to Illocutionary Effects in Political Speech
items: A Stylistic Analysis of President Mahama’s 2024 Electoral Victory Acceptance Speech
items: Critical Discourse Analysis of COVID-19 BBC News on X Platform
items: Discursive Construction of Power and Resistance: A Pragmatic Analysis of the 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla Coverage in Al Jazeera and The New York Times
items: Words that do things: Rhetorical Strategies and speech-acts pragmatics in Arafat (1974) and Mandela (1964)
items: Beauty Ideology: Critical Discourse Analysis of Online Filipino Beauty Product Advertisements
items: Staging Marrakech: Theatricality, Exoticism and the Colonial Gaze
items: When Modesty Meets Self-Promotion: A Discourse Analysis of Humble-Bragging on Social Media
items: Censoring Affection: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Rainbow Rowell’s Scattered Showers in the Context of Malaysian Book Bans
items: Navigating Conflict and Dialogue: A Conceptual Exploration of Power, Politeness, and Pragmatics in Student-Professor Disagreements in Jordan
items: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Anthony Albanese’s Opening Remarks at the 2024 Quad Leaders’ Summit
items: Manufacturing Disinformation and Deceptive Narratives in Algerian News Coverage of the Moroccan Sahara
items: Ideological Accommodation in Electoral Discourse: How Liberalism and Populism Reconciled in American Elections 2024?
items: Politeness Strategies in Political Discourse: A Study through the Lens of Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory
items: The Jeepney Culture of Politeness: A Structural Functionalist Perspective
items: Donald Trump's Satirical Remarks toward Joe Biden and Kamala Harris during the 2024 Presidential Debates: A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
items: Analysis of Persuasion Strategies in President Biden's Speech at the Climate Change Conference (UN COP27)
items: A Pragmatic Analysis Of Accommodation In Selected Political Discourses In Nigeria
items: A Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Request External and Internal Modification Strategies: The case of Moroccan University Students of English
items: Role of Transitivity in Constructing Discursive Relations in Pronominal Networks Within Crisis Discourse
items: The Themes of the Female Persona in Nizar Qabbani's Poetry Compared to the Themes of the Female Persona in the Poetry of His Contemporary Female Poets: A Pragmatic, Analytical Study
items: Semiotics and Narrative: A Reading into Dr. TAI EL HADDAOUI’s Book, The Discourse of Storytelling and Image
items: Intertextuality in John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
items: Intonational Meanings of Discourse Markers in Spoken Colloquial Arabic
items: A Relevance Theory-based Analysis of Mandarin Chinese Discourse Markers in Oral Speech
items: An Exploration of Japanese Cultural Dynamics Communication Practices through Social Pragmatics

What can a combined Transitive and Appraisal analysis of Japanese government materials reveal about underlying attitudes towards Assistant Language Teachers?
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description: English education in Japanese schools is often delivered in a team-teaching approach with one Japanese teacher and one non-Japanese Assistant Language Teacher (ALT), many of which are recruited through the Japanese Exchange and Teaching (JET) programme. Whether implicitly or explicitly, there are different roles and expectations assigned to each of these jobs from the students, schools, and wider policy makers within the Japanese Department of Education (MEXT). This combined Transitive and Appraisal analysis of the text of two training videos targeted at new JET teachers entering Japan reveals a lot of positive language being employed however there are some more concerning trends that appear as well, including an expectation for the JET teacher to always follow the lead of their Japanese partner teacher, an emphasis on the presence of the JET teacher over any actual action, and subjects them to some negative presumptions. Academics frequently call greater cooperation in how language teaching is delivered, therefore understanding the root of problem as reflected in the discourse used can be a useful first step towards achieving a more effective relationship for all parties involved.
subject: Research Article
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subject: Appraisal analysis
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subject: Japanese English education
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subject: JET
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subject: MEXT
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subject: Transitive analysis
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creator: Simon Brewer
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2026-03-19
publication date: 2026-03-19
starting page: 19
ending page: 28
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2026.5.1.3

A Contrastive Critical Discourse Analysis of Pseudo-Ignorance in two English and Arabic Politicians' Speeches
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description: The justification for ambiguity and hedging is known as pseudo-ignorance strategy; speakers may pretend not to know something, but they may subtly imply that they do, making assertions that do not require supporting evidence. These kinds of seeming knowledge are usually seen in disclaimers, like “I don't know, but...” which, in spite of the ignorance claimed, affirms the truth of the but-clause, which is also a tactic used in impression management. This study tries to be an attempt to contrast the political employment of the strategy pseudo-ignorance between two English and Arabic political speeches, drawing on investigating the four syntactic, semantic, lexical, and pragmatic levels of Van Dijk (1995) and James (1980) for analyzing the data contrastively. The study opines to choose speeches of two American and Iraqi politicians, Donald Trump and Ayad Allawi to be investigated and contrasted. The study concludes that pseudo-ignorance is the political strategy that is used by both politicians Trump and Ayad Allawi in order to achieve their personal and political purposes.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Contrastive Linguistics, CDA, Pseudo-Ignorance Strategy, James (1980) Model of CA, Van Dijk (1995) Model of CDA
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creator: Mohanned Jassim Dakhil Al-Ghizzy
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-01-28
publication date: 2026-01-28
starting page: 12
ending page: 18
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2026.5.1.2

Analysis of English Refusal and Request Strategies by Native Speakers and Bahrainis in the Workplace
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description: This study compares the request and refusal strategies used by native English speakers and Bahraini employees. Politeness was examined with reference to Brown and Levinson (1987) and Matsumoto (1989), and formality was assessed following Li et al. (2015), Ernestus et al. (2015), and Jassim and Nimehchisalem (2016). Data were collected through a modified Discourse Completion Test comprising request and refusal scenarios across four workplace status relations: equal, higher, lower and unfamiliar. Participants included 13 Bahraini and 11 native-speaker employees. Findings show that native speakers employed more directness and politeness in requests when holding a higher status, while Bahrainis were more direct and less formal with unfamiliar colleagues. In refusals, native speakers used higher levels of directness, politeness and formality across most status contexts. Overall, the results highlight significant cross-cultural differences, particularly in the role of hierarchy. The study recommends integrating explicit instruction on speech acts—especially requests and refusals—into English training for Bahraini employees.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Speech acts, politeness, formality, directness, indirectness
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creator: Husain Ali Akbar
creator: Nuri Rahouma Ageli
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-07
publication date: 2025-12-07
starting page: 21
ending page: 29
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.5.2

A Discourse Analysis of the Nigerian Supreme Court Judgements on Gubernatorial Election Petitions in Southwestern Nigeria between 1999 and 2023
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description: With the return of civilian rule in 1999 to the Nigerian democratic landscape, electoral litigation has become an integral part of Nigerian history. The advent of Electoral litigation has become a defining feature of Nigeria's democratic landscape since the return to civilian rule in 1999. This study investigates the generic structure potential of Nigerian Supreme Court judgements on gubernatorial election petitions from Southwestern Nigeria between 1999 and 2023. With systemic functional linguistics as theoretical framework, this study analysed ten Supreme Court judgements in this context to arrive at ten distinct elements. These elements are divided into the obligatory elements, namely: Case Overview, Review of Court of Appeal Proceedings, Reference to Law, Application of Law, and Appeal Verdict, and the optional elements, namely: Production of Issues, Grounds of Appeal, Assessment of Preliminary Objection, Analysis of Cross Appeal Issues, and Summary and Conclusion. The elements formed the generic structure potential formula as: [CO^ RCAP^ (PI) ● (GA)^ (APO)^ {RL^ AL}^ AV^ {(ACAI)^ (SC)}]. This study contributes to legal literacy by bridging a communication gap by crafting a road map for individuals outside the legal profession to understand these judgements and contribute to democratic conversation.
subject: Research Article
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subject: Supreme Court judgements
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subject: gubernatorial election petitions
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subject: electoral petition
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subject: legal discourse
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subject: generic structure potential
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creator: Gift Ngozi Okata
creator: Samuel Akinmusuyi
creator: Ayoola Sanmi Ojo
creator: Adeleke Fakoya
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2026-01-17
publication date: 2026-01-17
starting page: 01
ending page: 11
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2026.5.1.1

From Device to Deed: A Framework for Mapping Rhetorical Moves to Illocutionary Effects in Political Speech
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description: This paper proposes a unified framework—Device–Act–Felicity–Effect (DAFE)—linking rhetorical criticism and speech-act pragmatics to explain how political speakers transform linguistic form into performative action. It addresses the gap between rhetorical form and pragmatic function, offering a systematic model for mapping rhetorical devices to illocutionary force, felicity cues, and audience uptake. Building on Austin and Searle’s speech-act theory and contemporary rhetorical analysis, the framework formalises rhetorical devices as felicity scaffolds that make speech acts recognisable and legitimate. It employs a four-layer annotation system: (A) Rhetorical Device, (B) Illocutionary Force, (C) Felicity Signal, and (D) Perlocutionary Intent. Procedures for coder training, reliability testing (κ, α), and optional NLP support ensure replicability and scalability. Applications to Nelson Mandela’s Statement from the Dock (1964) and Yasser Arafat’s UN Address (1974) show that rhetorical devices perform essential felicity functions under contested authority. Repetition heightens commissive sincerity; metaphor and antithesis enact recognition; ethos substitutes for institutional legitimacy. These patterns reveal rhetoric as a mechanism through which political actors constitute moral and performative authority. Value: The DAFE framework establishes a reproducible bridge between rhetoric and pragmatics, turning interpretive insights into structured, comparable data. Practical Implications: It supports cross-cultural and computational analyses of political oratory, diplomacy, and protest discourse, providing an open, field-building method for cumulative research on performative legitimacy in global communication.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Rhetoric; Speech Acts; Felicity; Political Discourse; Performativity; Pragmatics; Rhetorical–Pragmatic Framework
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creator: Bahjat Ahmed Arafat
creator: Ahmad Taufik Hidayah Bin Abdullah
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-04
publication date: 2025-12-04
starting page: 01
ending page: 20
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.5.1

A Stylistic Analysis of President Mahama’s 2024 Electoral Victory Acceptance Speech
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description: An acceptance speech acts as an opportunity for speakers to relate, share their journey and express gratitude to others. Speakers utilize these speeches to show appreciation, personal reflection, motivational elements, and resonate with the audience while celebrating their achievements. For politicians, their vision, ideology, and relationship with the electorate are encapsulated in their pivotal political acceptance speeches. Due to the multi-purpose nature of this speech, writers employ several stylistic devices aimed at portraying their unique idiosyncrasies while also persuading the audience. They use implied language as a means of expressing ideas, emotions, and desires. This study analyses the language and stylistic elements found in President-elect Mahama’s acceptance speech following the 2024 electoral victory. It examines how the speaker's idiosyncratic nature and particularity are reflected in his language use. The analysis employs the analytical frameworks mainly in a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) fashion with other related frameworks serving as associations. (Fairclough 1992, 1993, Halliday 1978, Wodak, 2002,1999). The data reveals the use of stylistic devices such as over-wording, cohesion and coherence, logical connectors, repetition, pronouns, and the use of active sentences in conveying the themes of hope, unity, progress, and confidence. The president-elect skillfully applies these techniques to enhance the effectiveness of his message and relate to his listeners on both intellectual and emotional levels. This creates a narrative of optimism, resilience, and inclusiveness, qualities needed by the speaker as he sets out on his journey of resetting the country.
subject: Research Article
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subject: Acceptance Speech, Discourse Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, Political Discourse
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creator: Victoria Owusu-Ansah
creator: Faustina Amponsah Partey
creator: Stephen Bani-Kwakye
creator: Caroline Aba Anane
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-01
publication date: 2025-11-01
starting page: 15
ending page: 27
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.4.2

Critical Discourse Analysis of COVID-19 BBC News on X Platform
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description: This study critically examines the BBC's COVID-19 discourse on the social media platform X (previously Twitter) to explore how media language shaped public attitudes and health behaviors during the pandemic. The research investigates the BBC tweets posted between January 2020 and May 2023 using a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework. By analyzing the inclusive pronoun, metaphor, and modality, the study reveals how the BBC crafted messages of collective responsibility, urgency, and empathy to promote public compliance with health guidelines. The methodology follows Fairclough's three-dimensional model which includes textual analysis of linguistic features, discursive practice of intertextuality and framing, and social practice analysis of societal contexts. Tweets were purposively sampled based on engagement metrics and relevance, enabling a comprehensive analysis of the evolving discourse throughout the pandemic's progression. This comprehensive approach highlights how BBC discourse aligned with authoritative sources (including government policies and scientific findings) to reinforce credibility and influence public understanding. Key findings demonstrate the BBC's role in framing health behaviors through emotive storytelling which humanized the pandemic's impact and fostered empathy. Repetition of key slogans strengthened public commitment to collective responsibility and compliance with health measures. The study also uncovers underlying power dynamics and social inequalities reflected in the discourse, emphasizing the media's influence in shaping public responses during the crises. This research contributes to understanding the intersection of language, power, and ideology in pandemic reporting. It underscores the need for ethical media practices and enhanced public media literacy to navigate health emergencies effectively.
subject: Research Article
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subject: Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), English Media, Covid-19
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creator: Rawan Aleidan
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-01
publication date: 2025-11-01
starting page: 01
ending page: 14
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.4.1

Discursive Construction of Power and Resistance: A Pragmatic Analysis of the 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla Coverage in Al Jazeera and The New York Times
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description: This study looks at the discursive construction of power and resistance in the coverage of the 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla by Al Jazeera and The New York Times. The study examines how the linguistic, pragmatic, and visual components correlate to create ideological narratives using a qualitative methodology based on Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 1995, 2003), Speech Act Theory (Austin, 1962; Searle, 1969), and Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006). Twelve articles, half from each news organisation, that were published between June and October 2025, when the flotilla was receiving the most international media attention, make up the corpus. The study explores how each media organisation establishes legitimacy, accountability, and humanitarian identity in conflicting geopolitical contexts by looking at lexical selection, modality, evidentiality, and illocutionary act. The findings show that Al Jazeera regularly uses emotive lexis, expressive and commissive speech acts, and solidarity framing to humanise activists and highlight moral agency in opposition to structural violence. On the other hand, The New York Times favours aggressive and investigative actions, hedging strategies, and procedural methods that maintain the appearance of journalistic objectivity while subtly endorsing state power. Visual framing also reinforces these discursive tendencies: The New York Times favours procedural, distant images that emphasise institutional order, while Al Jazeera uses emotive images of suffering and resistance. According to the comparative reading, empathy and neutrality are two different but ideologically influenced types of journalistic discourse. Lastly, by demonstrating how international news media mediate humanitarian discourse and reconstruct or subvert power relations through linguistic and multimodal selection, this study contributes to critical media and discourse studies. The study confirms that to obtain a comprehensive understanding of …
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Critical Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Global Sumud Flotilla, Media Ideology, Humanitarian Discourse
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creator: Bahjat Ahmed Arafat
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2025-10-13
publication date: 2025-10-13
starting page: 39
ending page: 56
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.2.5

Words that do things: Rhetorical Strategies and speech-acts pragmatics in Arafat (1974) and Mandela (1964)
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description: This paper investigates how rhetorical devices and speech-act pragmatics combine to produce political effects in two emblematic freedom-fighter speeches: Yasser Arafat’s 13 November 1974 address to the United Nations General Assembly and Nelson Mandela’s 20 April 1964 Statement from the Dock (Rivonia Trial). Using a mixed-methods protocol that pairs fine-grained close reading with a reproducible sentence-level annotation scheme, we coded rhetorical devices (metaphor, anaphora, antithesis, narrative, ethos, etc.), primary illocutionary force (Searle’s taxonomy), perlocutionary intent, and a binary felicity indicator for each sentence (Arafat N ≈ 123; Mandela N = 62). Quantitative analyses include device–act contingency tables, χ² tests with Cramér’s V (χ² = 42.8, df = 16, p < .001; V = .38), bootstrap confidence intervals, and robustness checks after collapsing rare categories; inter-coder reliability exceeded κ = .90 for primary layers after codebook refinement. Results show systematic device→act mappings: Arafat’s rhetoric clusters metaphor and antithesis with declaratives and assertives, facilitating institutional uptake in a diplomatic forum; Mandela’s rhetoric clusters anaphora, narrative, and pathos with commissives and assertives, producing moral authority in a courtroom setting. We introduce the concept of rhetorical felicity scaffolds—formal devices that help satisfy illocutionary felicity conditions—and offer a comparative model in which institutional venue shapes device→act repertoires and distinct perlocutionary payoffs. The study contributes a transparent, replicable method for linking rhetorical form to pragmatic force and advances theory on how oratory performs political legitimation.
subject: Research Article
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subject: Rhetorical Devices; Speech Acts; Felicity Conditions; Arafat 1974; Mandela 1964; Political Oratory; Performativity; Content Analysis
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creator: Bahjat Ahmed Arafat
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2025-10-09
publication date: 2025-10-09
starting page: 06
ending page: 23
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.3.2

Beauty Ideology: Critical Discourse Analysis of Online Filipino Beauty Product Advertisements
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description: This study investigates the linguistic and discursive features of collected online Filipino beauty advertisements from 2016 to 2025, with the aim of uncovering how these texts construct and reinforce prevailing beauty ideologies. Grounded in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the research applies Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Model to examine the textual structures, discursive practices, and social practices that shape these online advertisements. The findings reveal that advertisers use a strategic blend of emotive language, pseudo-scientific terminology, and personalized messaging to create persuasive narratives around beauty. These advertisements often frame beauty as both an attainable goal and a personal responsibility, closely tied to consumption and self-improvement. Distributed across everyday platforms like social media and product packaging, the ads promote a neoliberal view of beauty as a marker of empowerment, success, and social acceptance. Ultimately, this study demonstrates how language and discourse in beauty advertising play a powerful role in shaping cultural ideals, reinforcing gender norms, and influencing consumer behavior and self-perception.
subject: Research Article
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subject: Critical Discourse Analysis, Beauty Advertisements, Discursive Strategies, Filipino Media, Beauty Ideology
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creator: Jobelle Lanzarrote
creator: Cylyn Rallos
creator: Jennifer Tan-de Ramos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2025-10-17
publication date: 2025-10-17
starting page: 24
ending page: 42
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.3.3

Staging Marrakech: Theatricality, Exoticism and the Colonial Gaze
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description: This article critically examines how orientalist discourse informs the representation and promotion of Marrakech in travel guides. Through selective language, Marrakech is staged as a site of mystery and exoticism, a portrayal which is inextricably linked to the commodification of culture. By approaching promotional discourse as a discursive medium, the study reveals how cultural otherness is not only represented but also objectified and commercialized within the tourism industry.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: tourism
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subject: discourse
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subject: culture commodification
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subject: marketing strategies
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subject: exoticism
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creator: Meriem Rafik
creator: Jamaa Ouchouid
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2025-10-04
publication date: 2025-10-04
starting page: 01
ending page: 05
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.3.1

When Modesty Meets Self-Promotion: A Discourse Analysis of Humble-Bragging on Social Media
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description: Humble-bragging, or self-promotion hidden behind acts of modesty or discontent, has become a popular communication tactic in the age of social media, when users are always juggling likeability with self-enhancement. Despite the fact that earlier study has concentrated on the psychological effects of humble-bragging and the responses of audiences to it, linguistic studies that systematically examine the discursive mechanisms behind this behaviour are conspicuously lacking. This study aims to bridge this gap by analysing the rhetorical, pragmatic, and structural elements of humble-bragging on social media through discourse analysis. The data came from a purposeful sample of 500 public posts from a variety of sites, such as Instagram, Twitter (X), and LinkedIn, and represented a range of demographic backgrounds. Through an analysis of stance-taking, linguistic cues, and the relationship between self-praise and self-deprecation, the study situates humble-bragging within broader patterns of online self-presentation. The results show that humble-bragging often employs a hybrid discourse structure that intentionally employs conversational implicature to quietly express accomplishment and mixes evaluative language with mitigated self-reference. This discreet self-promotion allows speakers to navigate the tension between the cultural norms of humility and the performative demands of digital identity formation. The linguistic and interactional features of humble-bragging are highlighted in this study, which contributes to our understanding of online discourse practices and offers insights into the evolving norms of self-presentation in mediated spaces.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: humble-bragging, discourse analysis, social media
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creator: NOR FATIN ABDUL JABAR
creator: Mohamad Iadid Ashrai Hassannuddin
creator: Kamariah Yunus
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2025-08-30
publication date: 2025-08-30
starting page: 31
ending page: 38
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.2.4

Censoring Affection: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Rainbow Rowell’s Scattered Showers in the Context of Malaysian Book Bans
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description: This study critically analyses the censorship of Rainbow Rowell's collection of young adult short tales, Scattered Showers (2022), which was outlawed in Malaysia in 2024 on the grounds that it supposedly promoted LGBTQ+ beliefs that went against regional cultures. Using a qualitative technique and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the article analyses the ideological narratives found in government pronouncements, media reporting, and public reader responses in addition to the book's textual methods. The study aims to explore how the novel itself linguistically challenges heteronormative frameworks through narrative voice, emotive language, and character agency, as well as how institutional discourses depict LGBTQ+ representation as morally aberrant. The Malaysian government perpetuates the division between "Western immorality" and "local values" by portraying the text as a danger from foreign ideology, according to research employing Fairclough's three-dimensional CDA model. In contrast, Rowell's works undermine dominant discourses by normalising LGBT affection and emotional closeness through everydayness and inclusion rather than confrontation. The study concludes that censorship produces ideological meaning and strengthens social boundaries even when the material is not stated directly. This essay contributes to conversations concerning teenage literature, censorship politics, and the societal impact of literary discourse.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: censorship, LGBTQ+, Critical Discourse Analysis, young adult fiction, Scattered Showers, Rainbow Rowell, Malaysia, ideology
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creator: NOR FATIN ABDUL JABAR
creator: KAMARIAH YUNUS
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2025-08-30
publication date: 2025-08-30
starting page: 23
ending page: 30
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.2.3

Navigating Conflict and Dialogue: A Conceptual Exploration of Power, Politeness, and Pragmatics in Student-Professor Disagreements in Jordan
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description: Disagreement is intrinsic to human interaction, particularly within academic environments where diverse perspectives often arise between students and professors. The expression of disagreement is significantly influenced by cultural, social, and institutional contexts. This study investigates disagreement strategies employed by Jordanian students and their professors during classroom interactions at Jerash University in Jordan. Employing a qualitative research design, this study combines direct observation and semi-structured interviews to explore the strategies used by both students and professors. The participants include English and translation students and their professors, selected to represent varied academic experiences. Two primary hypotheses are tested: first, that students and professors share common disagreement strategies; and second, that professors, due to their higher status, employ different strategies compared to students. This research aims to identify these strategies and uncover the motivations behind their use. The findings are expected to provide insights into how power dynamics, cultural norms, and social roles influence disagreement management in the academic environment. The study's results could significantly enhance the understanding of communication practices in Jordanian higher education, offering practical applications for improving classroom dynamics and fostering more effective communication. Furthermore, the findings may serve as a basis for future research on politeness strategies and their implications in cross-cultural academic settings.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Disagreement Strategies, Classroom Interaction, Jordanian Students/Professors, Power Dynamics, Cultural Norms
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creator: Areej Mohammad Mahmoud Al-Hawamdeh
creator: Salaam M. Alhawamdeh
creator: Rose Fowler Al-Hawamdeh
creator: Natheer Mohammad Ahmad Al-Omari
creator: Mouad Mohammed Al-Natour
creator: Haitham M.K AlYousef
creator: Abdul Raheem Mohammad Al Jaraedah
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-07-29
publication date: 2025-07-29
starting page: 01
ending page: 10
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.2.1

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Anthony Albanese’s Opening Remarks at the 2024 Quad Leaders’ Summit
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description: This study examines Anthony Albanese's opening remarks at the 2024 Quad Leaders’ Summit from the analysis of three stages of description, interpretation, and explanation of Fairclough's 1989 three-dimensional framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The study is carried out by employing both quantitative and qualitative and methods to reveal the linguistic devices which contribute to ideologies and political intentions in Albanese’s speech. The study finds that Albanese makes use of first, the frequency of words; second, metaphors; and third, pronouns. These linguistic devices are applied to promote Albanese’s ideology of “a free, open and prosperous Indo-Pacific region.” The study unveils the political intentions of Albanese, through such linguistic devices, including: (i) affirming the value of Quad to Australia, (ii) reinforcing relationships of the United States, Japan, India and (iii) approaching and addressing difficulties in the Indo-Pacific region. The study highlights how Albanese navigates the socio-political context of the summit, presenting Australia as a promotional factor of the Quad and an engaged partner in the Indo-Pacific region.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: CDA
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subject: Anthony Albanese
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subject: opening remarks
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subject: 2024 Quad Leaders’ Summit
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subject: Fairclough's 1989 three-dimensional framework
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creator: Thanh Binh Dang
creator: Bao Huy Nguyen
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2025-08-06
publication date: 2025-08-06
starting page: 11
ending page: 22
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.2.2

Manufacturing Disinformation and Deceptive Narratives in Algerian News Coverage of the Moroccan Sahara
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description: This study critically analyses disinformation in journalistic discourse, investigating the Algerian government–media nexus, with a particular focus on how this relationship is strategically used to disseminate conspiracy theories, disinformation, and propaganda. This research forms part of a broader doctoral thesis project investigating disinformation discourse within Algerian media, with a primary focus on coverage related to Moroccan issues, and a particular emphasis on the national cause of the Moroccan Sahara as represented in various Algerian news outlets. Against this backdrop, and given the ongoing scholarly debate and lack of consensus over the definition of fake news, this paper adopts the terms disinformation and fake news interchangeably to refer to any news that is deliberately false or misleading—whether entirely fabricated or biased—and produced with the intent to deceive and cause harm. Detecting such falsehoods becomes significantly more challenging when disinformation is spread through official news outlets that project legitimacy and authority, thereby blurring the line between factual reporting and propaganda. Forensic linguistics expands this inquiry by exploring how language can be used as a tool to commit crimes. While most crimes involve a physical act with intent, many unlawful acts are committed solely through speech or writing. Disinformation—including threats, extortion, defamation, and perjury—can be seen as a form of language crimes, where language is the primary means of deception and harm. In the context of the Moroccan Sahara issue—where misleading signifiers are manipulated to distort facts and events—Algerian media systematically omit or distort information regarding the true motivations behind Algeria’s involvement and interference in Moroccan affairs, constructing narratives steeped in conspiracy and disinformation discourse. This study focuses not on what journalists write, but on how journalistic discourse is constructed—how tex…
subject: Research Article
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subject: Moroccan Sahara- Algerian Government–media nexus – Language Crimes - Disinformation - Propaganda - Media narratives - Separatism
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creator: Zouhir EL HERRI
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-06-18
publication date: 2025-06-18
starting page: 51
ending page: 80
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.1.6

Ideological Accommodation in Electoral Discourse: How Liberalism and Populism Reconciled in American Elections 2024?
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description: The study investigates the use of accommodation strategies that candidates use in electoral discourse to approximate and converge to the Other’s ideology. The context is the American elections in 2024, held between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The two candidates represent the two prominent ideologies that predominate the American political context—Populism and Liberalism. The analysis focused on the topics of freedom, abortion and sexual identities. The analysis of the accommodation strategies in the discourse of the two candidates showed salient evidence that the two candidates employed approximation strategies to adjust their ideologies to appeal to the largest section of voters either by evading extreme ideological views or adopting some counter-ideology views.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Ideological Accommodation
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subject: Approximation Strategies
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subject: Accommodation Theory
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subject: Liberalism
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subject: Populism
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subject: American Elections 2024
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creator: Hanaa Alqahtani
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2025-04-12
publication date: 2025-04-12
starting page: 34
ending page: 50
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.1.5

Politeness Strategies in Political Discourse: A Study through the Lens of Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory
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description: This study explores politeness strategies in the political discourse of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., using Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory (1987) as a framework. A descriptive-qualitative approach analyzed three speeches from February 2025, revealing a sophisticated blend of strategies. The findings demonstrate the strategic use of Bald On-Record, Negative Politeness, Positive Politeness, and Off-Record strategies, showcasing a calculated balance between assertiveness and respect to achieve various communicative goals (persuasion, rapport-building, and image management). The research highlights the importance of considering context in analyzing politeness strategies, extending existing literature by demonstrating the complex relationship of these strategies in contemporary political communication and offering avenues for future research into cross-cultural variations and audience reception.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Politeness strategies, political discourse, Brown and Levinson, Philippine politics
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creator: Jeffrey Rajik
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2025-03-21
publication date: 2025-03-21
starting page: 26
ending page: 33
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.1.4

The Jeepney Culture of Politeness: A Structural Functionalist Perspective
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description: The jeepney, tagged as ‘king of the road’ is an intriguing exhibit of Filipino culture. The study aims to explain the systems of action within the jeepney context. Through the lens of Parsons' systemic functionalist perspective, the study examines the driver-passenger interactions to understand how politeness (Lakoff, 1975) is negotiated inside the jeepney. Three specific research questions guided this investigation. First, it explored the linguistic choices Filipino jeepney riders employ to fulfill two main functions of their utterances: paying the fare and getting on/off the jeepney. Second, it examined the mechanisms riders use to negotiate politeness within the jeepney. Finally, it analyzed what these linguistic choices reveal about the cultural practices of the riders. Employing a qualitative-complete observation method, the study's findings reveal a distinct culture of politeness unique to the jeepney environment.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: structural functionalism, politeness principle, collectivity, personality system, cultural system, social system
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creator: Jennifer Tan-de Ramos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2025-02-26
publication date: 2025-02-26
starting page: 18
ending page: 25
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.1.3

Donald Trump's Satirical Remarks toward Joe Biden and Kamala Harris during the 2024 Presidential Debates: A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
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description: This study investigates the satirical remarks uttered by President Donald Trump towards former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 Presidential election utilizing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), applying Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model. The study addresses two essential questions: (1) What are the hidden implications of President Trump’s remarks toward former President Biden and former Vice President Harris? and (2) How do these remarks contribute to weakening the public image of Biden and Harris? A qualitative analysis of Trump's language reveals that satire played a crucial role in Trump’s discourse, with repeated mockery as a strategic instrument to undermine the political image of the opponents. The analysis shows how Trump’s satirical remarks shaped public views, effectively deteriorating the credibility of Biden and Harris as perceived by their advocates and potential voters. The study addresses the implications for future investigation, encouraging a more nuanced exploration of the linguistic strategies utilized by Biden and Harris as a counter to Trump's discourse. Future studies could benefit from incorporating alternative theoretical frameworks, such as Foucault’s views on discourse and power, to expand the comprehension of political language in presidential campaigns.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Satire, presidential election, Trump, debate, Harris, Biden, CDA
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creator: Aleen Altamimi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2025-02-03
publication date: 2025-02-03
starting page: 09
ending page: 17
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.1.2

Analysis of Persuasion Strategies in President Biden's Speech at the Climate Change Conference (UN COP27)
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description: In recent years, climate change speeches have become increasingly significant, especially in high-profile international summits like the Conference of Parties (COP). This study aims to analyze US President Joe Biden's persuasion strategies that were utilized in his speech at COP27. Cialdini's model (2009) of persuasion is adopted to analyze the persuasion strategies overwhelmingly. Qualitatively, observation and memo methods are used to collect the data from Joe Bidin speech which was uploaded on the White House website (White House, 2022). The objectives of this study are expected to be achieved in two sections. Firstly, identifying the types of persuasion strategies that were used by President Joe Biden. Secondly, an in-depth analysis of persuasion strategies will be conducted to find out the preferred persuasion strategy that he utilized.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Climate change, conference of parties (cop), Cialdini’s persuasion strategies, political discourse, Joe Biden
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creator: Mouad Mohammed Al-Natour
creator: Shafiq Banat
creator: Mehiar Fawwaz Bani Mousa
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2025-01-05
publication date: 2025-01-05
starting page: 01
ending page: 08
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2025.4.1.1

A Pragmatic Analysis Of Accommodation In Selected Political Discourses In Nigeria
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description: This paper examines accommodation in selected political discourses in the Nigerian political landscape. The study begins by looking at how the lack clear political ideology and/or the total disregard for it by some Nigerian politicians them to defect from one political party to another and how they employ the nuances of language to prove their allegiance to the new political parties/political associates on the one hand while on the other, using language to distance themselves from their former political parties/former political associates. The data utilized for this study was obtained from secondary sources comprising newspapers and social media handles such as twitter currently X. After the data analysis using Howard Giles’s (1973), Communication Accommodation Theory as its framework, the study established that politicians who defect from one political party to another converge their speeches to show absolute allegiance and gain acceptance in their new party while also using language , to distance themselves from their former political parties. The findings also revealed that in the face of rampant defections, defectors are sometimes pressured into going the extra mile to prove their allegiance to their new political parties or associate by demonizing their former political parties and/or associates whom they once praised to high heavens. The paper concludes by condemning the exploitation of language to surreptitiously pursue personal interests under the guise of contributing to nation building and deepening of democracy.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Pragmatics, Political Discourse, Communication Accommodation Theory
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creator: Martha Nguemo Terna-Abah
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-11-24
publication date: 2024-11-24
starting page: 56
ending page: 63
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2024.3.2.6

A Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Request External and Internal Modification Strategies: The case of Moroccan University Students of English
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description: This study investigates how Moroccan university students of English use modification strategies to either mitigate or aggravate their requests as compared to American native speakers of English. The data were collected by means of a written discourse completion task and were analyzed quantitatively based on Faerch and Kasper’s (1989) typology of request modification categories. The analysis showed significant differences between American native speakers and Moroccan university students at the level of external and internal modification. While Americans used more mitigating supportive moves, Moroccans’ requests displayed more lexical/phrasal downgraders. However, the differences at the level of alerters, syntactic downgraders, upgraders, and aggravating supportive moves were not significant. The study concludes with some implications about the importance and relevance of modification categories in the acquisition and teaching of requests in a foreign language.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Interlanguage pragmatics, Pragmalinguistic analysis, Requests, Internal and external modification strategies, Moroccan university students
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creator: Hicham Latif
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2024-11-27
publication date: 2024-11-27
starting page: 64
ending page: 77
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2024.3.2.7

Role of Transitivity in Constructing Discursive Relations in Pronominal Networks Within Crisis Discourse
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description: Guided by the principles of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Halliday’s model of transitivity, the study investigates how leaders’ use of language represents their ideologies and positions regarding various entities during the crisis at both macro and microlevels of discourse. This research proposes a discursive approach to analyzing the pragmatic meaning of pronominal-verb-process networks and how these networks contribute to constructing the ideologies of the leader and relations with various entities. This work focuses on the COVID-19 address delivered by former President Donald Trump. The analysis of the address revealed that Trump exploited pronouns in verb-process networks to express ideologies, relationships, and oppositions. He utilized pronoun–verb collocations to construct and reconstruct discursive relations with the American people, his administration, Europeans, and Chinese entities and actively used pronouns to evoke nationalism, resulting in polarizing language. The analysis also revealed that leaders may simultaneously face challenges of power that lead them to use dichotomous language against the people to enhance their political power in mandating adherence to prevention guidelines.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: COVID-19
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subject: networks
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subject: Discourse Analysis
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subject: Transitivity
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subject: pronouns
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subject: Trump
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subject: political discourse
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subject: crisis discourse
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creator: Hanaa Alqahtani
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2024-11-24
publication date: 2024-11-24
starting page: 41
ending page: 55
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2024.3.2.5

The Themes of the Female Persona in Nizar Qabbani's Poetry Compared to the Themes of the Female Persona in the Poetry of His Contemporary Female Poets: A Pragmatic, Analytical Study
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description: This article explores the extent to which Nizar Qabbani succeeded in addressing the themes of the female poets of his era in his poems, where the poetic persona was portrayed as a woman. The study delves into the primary themes of the female poetic persona in the works of both Qabbani and the female poets, drawing comparisons between them. The key question is whether Qabbani succeeded in affirming Salah Saleh's assertion that a man can sometimes describe the concerns and life of a woman more effectively than a woman herself, or whether he failed in this endeavor.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Female Persona; Nizar Qabbani's Poetry; Female Poets
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creator: Nassim Assadi
creator: Alaaeddin Joudallah
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-09-19
publication date: 2024-09-19
starting page: 20
ending page: 40
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2024.3.2.4

Semiotics and Narrative: A Reading into Dr. TAI EL HADDAOUI’s Book, The Discourse of Storytelling and Image
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description: This article examines the axes of the book’s structure and the author’s strategy, with a particular focus on the semiotic component in the analysis of poetry and the narrative component in the analysis of the novel. The study also presents the underlying laws inferred from the scrutiny of the relationship between passions and things, emotionality and material reality, in the contemporary Moroccan poetry corpora. Additionally, the research sheds light on the narrative theme, textual content, and discourse construction in the novel Take Her. I Don't Want Her by Kuwaiti novelist Laila Al-Othman.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Semiotics, Narratology, Poetry, Novel, Discourse, Image
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creator: Ilham EL MAJDOUBI
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-08-16
publication date: 2024-08-16
starting page: 11
ending page: 14
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2024.3.2.2

Intertextuality in John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
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description: John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech on January 20, 1961, represented more than an introduction to the new President. Kennedy was “doing politics” (Van Dijk, p. 18) in a very real sense through discourse. The intertexual references and allusions made by Kennedy transcended the contemporary time of the 1960’s by connecting the speech with the words of other Presidents of the United States. In these connections, Kennedy forged a sense of purpose that united the people of the U.S. during the Cold War.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Discourse analysis, political speech, intertextual, Cold War
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creator: Kay Oaks
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: 15
ending page: 19
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2024.3.2.3

Intonational Meanings of Discourse Markers in Spoken Colloquial Arabic
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description: Intonation is the rise and fall of the voice while speaking. It expresses the attitudes and emotions and have a grammatical, discourse, linguistic, psychological and indexical functions. It makes significant and systematic contributions to utterance interpretation. This study sought to investigate the types of meanings and pragmatic functions that the discourse markers (طيب /Tayyib/ O.K, خلاص /xala:S/ (that’s it), إن شاء الله InshaAllah (God willing), ما قَصَّرْت /ma gaSSart/ & ما قَصَّرتِي /ma gaSSarti/ (much appreciated), لا لا /la: la:/ (no…no), يا ستي /ya sitti/ (ma’am), يا سلام /ya sala:m/ (wow), يا عيني /ya ؟eyni/, يا مسهل /ya: msahhil/ (asking God for making things easy), and يا ساتر /ya sa:ter/ (Oh My God) have when each is uttered with different intonation patterns in spoken Colloquial Arabic. Twenty student-translators received training in uttering the discourse markers with different intonations, identifying the meaning and/or purpose conveyed by each intonation, then they performed an elicitation and a judgment/interpretation task in which they were required to pronounce each discourse marker out loud with as variety of intonations and identify the meaning conveyed by each. Data analysis showed that each discourse marker has a variety of meanings and pragmatic functions when uttered with different intonations. The context makes it clear which meaning each intonation implies. Results of the interpretation of meanings that each discourse marker in the sample are reported in detail.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Discourse markers, Arabic discourse markers, intonational meaning, Arabic intonation, pragmatic function, Colloquial Arabic
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creator: Reima Al-Jarf
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2024-07-14
publication date: 2024-07-14
starting page: 01
ending page: 10
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2024.3.2.1

A Relevance Theory-based Analysis of Mandarin Chinese Discourse Markers in Oral Speech
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description: This study conducts an examination of Mandarin Chinese Discourse Markers (DMs) within oral speech, guided by the Relevance Theory as proposed by Sperber and Wilson (1986). By exploring the pragmatic and semantic layers of DMs, the research clarifies how these linguistic tools streamline communication, ensuring optimal relevance through minimal cognitive effort. The analysis of the research categorizes DMs into eight pragmatic functions, ranging from topic-related markers to illocutionary performatives, each serving distinct roles in enhancing discourse coherence and listener comprehension. This research not only explains the procedural versus conceptual nature of DMs but also reveals a spectrum where Mandarin DMs predominantly exhibit conceptual properties, underlining the critical role of context in DM utilization.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Relevance Theory
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subject: Discourse Markers
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subject: Pragmatic Functions
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subject: Semantic-Pragmatic Analysis
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creator: Bei Zhao
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2024-03-29
publication date: 2024-03-29
starting page: 52
ending page: 59
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2024.3.1.3

An Exploration of Japanese Cultural Dynamics Communication Practices through Social Pragmatics
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description: The core findings of the study reveal the fundamental role of collectivism, high-context communication, and hierarchical structure in shaping conversation practices in Japan. Collectivism, a cornerstone of Japanese culture, emphasizes group harmony and consensus, leading to indirect and subtle communication. High-context communication, deeply rooted in Japanese tradition, emphasizes the importance of shared context and implicit conversation cues. These elements, interlaced with a hierarchical social structure, dictate word choices and unspoken aspects of communication. The study also offers practical strategies for individuals and organizations guiding the complex landscape of Japanese communication. The research employed a mixed-methods approach to explore cross-cultural communication dynamics in Japan. The researchers gathered primary data through interviews, surveys, and thematic analysis of case studies. By shedding light on the complicated interlinks between Japanese culture and communication, along with media choice, this work provides valuable insights for those aspiring to bridge cultural gaps and engage successfully in the multifaceted world of Japanese communication.
subject: Research Article
  topic: section
subject: Japanese Culture, Communication, Social Pragmatics, Collectivism, High-Context Communication, Hierarchy
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creator: Zijun Shen
creator: Bing Pang
creator: Xiaohui Li
creator: Yunyi Chen
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
date: 2024-04-18
publication date: 2024-04-18
starting page: 60
ending page: 72
doi: 10.32996/jpda.2024.3.1.4