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Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2021 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 88, University of Babylon (College of Humanities), language: English, abstract: This study is concerned with sectarianism as a social and pragmatic act which is critically manifested by the Sunni and Shiite preachers, for which a critical pragmatic approach of analysis is introduced. It addresses how sectarian discourse, which is issued by the...

This book explains how the art of politics, in terms of electoral political speeches, uses irony as a pragmatically manifested strategy to convince voters to vote for the politician who uses irony, as an ostensible speech acts, against other nominees. Through irony, politicians can win the audience's opinion and achieve all their desires. After explaining types and pragmatic functions of irony, a model to analyze irony in political discourse i...