Ammar Ghalib Saleem received his M.A. in Linguistics from the College of Languages, University of Baghdad. He has 5 years of experience in teaching. He administers the English website of the Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies
Pragmatics Critical Discourse Analysis
Linguistics
This research is a pragmatic study of political blame in British and Iraqi Parliaments. It aims to unfold the similarities and/or differences in terms of the pragmatic and pragma-rhetorical strategies used by British and Iraqi politicians when they exchange blame in both offensive and defensive situations. A statistical analysis is conducted to quantitatively support the findings of the pragmatic analysis. The analyses conducted have yielded different results among blame is a process composed of two stages. Each stage is distinct for its pragmatic components and pragma-rhetorical strategies. British and Iraqi MPs at the blame stage tend to utilize impoliteness as their main strategy. However, British and Iraqi MPs perform differently at the
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