The Politics of Evasion: A Sociopragmatic Analysis
الباحث الأول:
Huda Hussein Shamal Al-Nouri
الباحثين الآخرين:
Asst. Pro. Dr. Alaa Baji Jebur
المجلة:
The Islamic University College Journal
تاريخ النشر:
26 مارس، 2024
مختصر البحث:
This paper examines the issue of using evasion in political discourse from a sociopragmatic perspective. Politicians tend to use deceptive tools to save the face of their countries and to avoid raising misunderstandings that would result in conflict…
This paper examines the issue of using evasion in political discourse from a sociopragmatic perspective. Politicians tend to use deceptive tools to save the face of their countries and to avoid raising misunderstandings that would result in conflicts and wars between two or more countries. Therefore, this study aims to define the term evasion from a sociopragmatic perspective to investigate the conditions that help in achieving evasion. The analysis of this study is based on an eclectic model, in which the qualitative part is mainly concerned with the reflections of the two samples out of the 352 questions of American and British political interviews and remarks on the Russian-Ukrainian War, while the quantitative part has described the data as a whole. Therefore, it was concluded that those politicians tend to use “Rhetorical Mode” and “Make a Political Point” mostly in their replies to evade certain questions rather than ignoring or refusing to provide an answer overtly.
