Abstract

The Representation of the Iraq War in Chomsky's Articles: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Sinaa Sattar Jabbar

Volume: 11 Issue: 1 2021

Abstract:

This study is a critical discourse analysis to some of Chomsky's articles. These articles tackle the Iraq war in (2003), and considered as an interesting case study. The study sheds light on the following problematic question, such as: what are the microstructures, the mesostructures, the macrostructures that are utilized to reflect the writer's (Chomsky’s) concepts about the Iraqi war in 2003? The study tries to identify the grammatical, lexical, rhetorical choices, the intertextuality, speech acts, themes that are used in Chomsky's articles of the Iraqi War, and to identify the ideology of the writer. This study is limited to analyse the representation of the Iraq War (2003) in Chomsky's articles to show how the writer represents his rejection concerning the war against Iraq. Six political articles written during (2003- 2008) are selected for analysis using an eclectic model that embraces Searle's speech act (1979), Quirk et.al's passivation and modality (1985), Fairclough's lexicalization, intertextuality and ideology (1992), Harris's (2013) rhetorical device and Halliday and Matthiessen's (2014) transitivity.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v11i01.002

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