Political Discourse Analysis Topoi in Haider Al-Abadi's Discourse during Basra Crisis in 2018

Abstract

Political discourses always carry various messages to the public.This can be done through many tools used by decision makers in orderto manipulate or persuade the public. Topos (plural is topoi) is tool ofdeveloping argumentation in political discourse. It is a part of anypolitical speech used either to persuade people, show the politician'supper hand or produce successful speeches. This paper will discuss theconceptualization of topoi as part of political discourse. It also studiesthe usage of topoi in Al-Abadi's weekly statement during Basra crisisof 2018. Protests in Basra were the most serious seen in Iraq duringAl-Abadi's era because of the importance of the city as a heart of someworld's largest oilfields. The paper also shows how Al-Abadi utilizestopoi in his speeches to deal with this robust crisis. Methodology ofanalysis will be Ruth Wodak's Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA)2011. DHA is designed to integrate systematically all the availablebackground information in the analysis and interpretation of the manylayers of written or spoken texts.

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