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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">18588</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-9182-2018-22-2-278-291</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>POLITICAL AND MEDIA DISCOURSE</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЙ И МЕДИАДИСКУРС</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>政治新闻媒体话语</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">PERSUASION IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE: BARAK OBAMA’S PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES AGAINST ISIS</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>СТРАТЕГИЯ УБЕЖДЕНИЯ В ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОМ ДИСКУРСЕ: ВЫСТУПЛЕНИЯ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА БАРАКА ОБАМЫ ПРОТИВ ИГИЛ</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>ALEMI</surname><given-names>MINOO</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>АЛЕМИ</surname><given-names>МИНУ</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Islamic Azad University, West Tehran Branch, and a post-doctoral associate at Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Iran. She is the associate editor of Applied Pragmatics (John Benjamins) and sits on the editorial/review boards of many journals, including British Journal of Educational Technology, BRAIN, LIBRI, and Scientia Iranica. Her areas of interest include discourse analysis, interlanguage pragmatics, materials development, and robot-assisted language education</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">доцент кафедры прикладной лингвистики, Azad University, West Tehran Branch, научный сотрудник Технологического университета Шариф, заместитель главного редактора журнала Applied Pragmatics (John Benjamins), член редколлегий нескольких международных научных периодических изданий: Journal of Educational Technology, BRAIN, LIBRI, Scientia Iranica. Сфера научных интересов: дискурс-анализ, межкультурная прагматика, разработка учебных материалов и обучение машинному языку</bio><email>Minooalemi2000@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>LATIFI</surname><given-names>ASHKAN</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>ЛАТИФИ</surname><given-names>АШКАН</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from Sharif University of Technology and is currently an MA student of Sociology at Bu-Ali Sina University. His areas of interest are neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and sociolinguistics</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">магистр прикладной лингвистики, Технологический университет Шариф (Иран), студент магистратуры университета Bu-Ali Sina. Сфера научных интересов: нейропсихология, психолингвистика, нейролингвистика, социолингвистика</bio><email>ashkan.latify@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>NEMATZADEH</surname><given-names>ARASH</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>НЕМАТЗАДЕХ</surname><given-names>АРАШ</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from Sharif University of Technology. His areas of interest are sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, interlanguage pragmatics, and materials development</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">магистр прикладной лингвистики, Технологический университет Шариф (Иран). Сфера научных интересов: социолингвистика, дискурс-анализ, межкультурная прагматика, разработка учебных материалов</bio><email>arash67nematzadeh@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><institution>Islamic Azad University</institution></aff><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Sharif University of Technology</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Технологический университет Шариф</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>22</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 22, NO2 (2018)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 22, №2 (2018)</issue-title><fpage>278</fpage><lpage>291</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2018-05-28"><day>28</day><month>05</month><year>2018</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2018, ALEMI M., LATIFI A., NEMATZADEH A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2018, АЛЕМИ М., ЛАТИФИ А., НЕМАТЗАДЕХ А.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2018, ALEMI M., LATIFI A., NEMATZADEH A.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2018</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">ALEMI M., LATIFI A., NEMATZADEH A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">АЛЕМИ М., ЛАТИФИ А., НЕМАТЗАДЕХ А.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">ALEMI M., LATIFI A., NEMATZADEH A.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/18588">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/18588</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en">The current study was concerned with the use of persuasion by President Obama, the former US president, as a discursive strategy in his two speeches delivered on 7/Aug/2014 and 10/Sep/2014 regarding ISIS. Analysis of these speeches was done by the application of Searle’s typology theory (1978), and pronoun analysis. That is, assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, and declarative speech acts, first person singular and plural pronouns (inclusiveness and exclusiveness), and agency. The findings of the study revealed that assertives were the most frequent speech act utilized in both speeches. Considering the function of assertives, this study showed that President Obama’s major intention was to justify the airstrikes launched by the US army on ISIS’s zones in Iraq. Besides, first person plural pronoun analysis in terms of inclusiveness/exclusiveness showed that President Obama’s stance was a conservative one according to which American people’s justification of his assertions concerning ISIS could be the cornerstone of any further military action that would be undertaken by the US army against ISIS. These analyses held the same result regarding the importance of persuasion as a pivotal axis in his aforementioned speeches. As to the issue of agency, the results held that President Obama took a conservative stance relying upon the will of American civilians and submitting his agency to Americans’ ideals and power as shown by his total 34 commissives undertaken in these two speeches.</abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru">В статье рассмотрены стратегии убеждения, использованные экс-президентом США Обамой в качестве дискурсивной стратегии в двух его официальных выступлениях против Исламского государства от 7 августа и 10 сентября 2014 г. Анализ этих выступлений проведен с применением типологической теории Серла (1978) и анализа местоимений, т.е. ассертивов, директивов, комиссивов, эмотивов и декларативов, местоимений первого лица единственного и множественного числа (инклюзивность и эксклюзивность), а также агентность. Исследование выявило, что ассертивы были наиболее употребительными типами речевых актов в обоих выступлениях. Рассматривая функцию ассертивов, мы обнаружили, что главным намерением президента Обамы было оправдать воздушные удары армии США по зонам Исламского государства в Ираке. Кроме того, анализ местоимений первого лица множественного числа в терминах инклюзивности/эксклюзивности показал, что позиция президента Обамы являлась консервативной (в сравнении с другими последними президентами США), в связи с чем оправдание американским народом его утверждений в отношении Исламского государства могло послужить краеугольным камнем в проведении любых дальнейших военных действий, которые будут предприниматься армией США против Исламского государства. Эти исследования показали одинаковый результат в отношении важности использования убеждения в качестве основного принципа в его вышеупомянутых выступлениях. Что касается агентности, исследование показало, что президент Обама занял консервативную позицию, полагаясь на волю американских граждан и подчиняя свою агентность американским идеалам и власти, что подтверждается общим числом 34 комиссивов в обоих его выступлениях.</trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Barak Obama</kwd><kwd>ISIS</kwd><kwd>Searle’s speech act theory</kwd><kwd>pronoun analysis</kwd><kwd>persuasion strategy</kwd><kwd>political discourse</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Барак Обама</kwd><kwd>типологическая теория Серла</kwd><kwd>анализ личных местоимений</kwd><kwd>стратегии убеждения</kwd><kwd>политический дискурс</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Abdel-Moety, D. M. (2015). American political discourse as manifested in Hillary Clinton’s interviews: A critical approach. 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