Analysis of Muqtada Al Sadr's and Biden's Speeches on Terrorism: A Discursive Comparative Study

Abstract

This study intends to investigate how people talk about ISIS and how their beliefs affect what they say. It wants to show how language can change the way people think about what's happening, depending on their own ideas. After looking at many speeches and videos of President Muqtada Al Sadr and Joe Biden, we found that they talk about the same things but in different ways because of their beliefs. They use strategies to show themselves in a positive way and to make others look bad when they talk. These strategies are comprised of lexicalization, presupposition, consensus, hyperbole, illegality and disclaimer. Some implications of the findings are also suggested that Van Dijkian strategies such as such as dramatization, empathy, categorization, comparison, consensus, illegality, vagueness and hyperbole and mingling it with power of language by using the rhetorical devices and aforementioned strategies to depict his hatred and anonymity of himself and his nation from the terrorist and ISIS which has committed unrests at Iraq nation favored by Ayatollah Al Sadr.