Ways of Manipulating the Public by Using Euphemistic Expressions within Iraqi Political Context A Research Paper in Linguistics
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https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v0i128.415Keywords:
Euphemism – (ST) Source Text – (TT) Target Text)- PM (Prime Minster)- PoliticalAbstract
People have a tendency to, instead of saying harsh and brunt things, express what they think in suitable mitigatingways to make the communication more smooth and comfort. Euphemism is one of the effective ways of communication for that purpose. In politics, Politicians abundantly employs euphemism to direct people's perspective about the world and to hide facts as well as turn the public attention away from them. This paper probes the euphemistic usages along with their nature, meaning and effects in political discourse. The scope of the study is limited to the usage of euphemism within Iraqi context. It mainly attempts to find how different leaders in world of politics use this technique to manipulate people minds and achieve their purposes regarding Iraqi situations.
The study commences with presenting a sufficient background about euphemism, its meaning, kinds and categories, purposes and so on. Then it deals with the concept of political euphemism as well as its usages in different contexts and situations. To achieve the main objective, a group of speeches that made by different senior world leaders concerning Iraq are selected to represent the sample of the study. These speeches are analyzed according to different methods since they are varied in their nature, language, culture. However, the emphasis is focused on the descriptive method and a content analysis. This analyze emerges from a qualitative perspective since it concentrates on the meaning that exist in specific situations.
The paper objective is fulfilled by locating a lot of and various euphemistic utilizations in political speeches samples. The defined categories of euphemisms have different natures and meaning, and are used for many purposes.However,each speech context is distinguished by common feature, as the British context is distinguished by playing on cognitive and mental factors, whereas American one has feature of patriotism and using historical symbols, regarding the Iraqi, the speech is dominated by religious garment. To sum up, euphemism is an effective and sufficient technique employed abundantly by Politicians all over the world to achieve their purposes. The Iraqi context is not different from that.
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