Blair's Defensive strategies in Chilcot's Report : A Critical Discourse Analysis
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Language plays a crucial role in depicting the ideology of the speaker. There are many factors that rule the ways of reflecting ideology. The main factors are the social position and the purpose of communication. This study aims to investigate Blair's power strategies in defending his decision of war on Iraq in 2003 in Chilcot's Iraq report conference , which is held in (2016).It further aims to examine the devices used to face the criticism of the audience and resist that power. To meet these objectives, an eclectic model which includes Katz's classification of speech act , politeness theory (2016) , and Kadim's model of power in police interviews (2021), have been adopted in data analysis .The study has revealed that Blair used providing information as a defensive strategy to defend his decision of the war on Iraq. He further used expositive speech act as a tool to fight against the criticism of his decision.
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