چکیده:
Leaders' speeches at the General Assembly are the essence of the most general and key political positions of actors in the field of international politics, and the linguistic analysis of these texts can contain valuable research results. The speeches of Hassan Rouhani from 2015 to 2018 are the subject of this study, based on John Searle's speech act theory. In response to the question of what the pattern of speech acts in Rouhani's speeches at the General Assembly has been and what connection it has had with its changing contexts, the text of his speeches, while being thematically classified, has been quantitatively calculated based on the distinction of assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, and declarative acts, and the results have been analyzed in connection with the context and in a comparative format. The results show that the volume of acts, in order, was assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, and declarative. Whenever the speech was shorter, commissive and declarative acts decreased, and expressive and directive acts increased. In topics such as the JCPOA or the Iranian presidential elections, the most use was of assertive acts, and in topics such as the Mina tragedy or the Ahvaz terrorist attack, the most use was of directive and expressive acts. In terms of topic volume, the largest share belonged to the JCPOA, which after 2017 was replaced by the topic of criticizing US performance.
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Keywords: United Nations General Assembly, Hassan Rouhani, Speech Act, John Searle, JCPOA, Iran, United States of America 64 Introduction Language constructs our worlds and the truths hidden within their existence.
Thematic distribution of the 2016 speech Word count | Introduction, congratulations, and closing wishes %9 JCPOA (direct and Situation of the Middle indirect) East and politics %38 of regional powers Terrorism and consequences %32 global and regional %21 82 Hassan Rouhani's informative acts in this speech encompass a diverse range of topics, including explaining the insecure situation of the region and the capacities for the expansion of terrorism, the role of regional actors and great powers in promoting and spreading terrorism and insecurity in the region and the world, and explaining the security and economic achievements of the JCPOA.
Thematic distribution of Hassan Rouhani's 2018 speech Subject Word Count Percentage JCPOA (direct) 90 4/25 Behavior of the United States of America 910 43 Iran's foreign policy and the situation of the region and the world 896 42/3 Terrorism and the role of certain governments in promoting and supporting it 180 8/5 Introduction, congratulations, and gratitude 39 1/8 Chart No.
Thematic distribution of Hassan Rouhani's 2018 speech 2018 JCPOA (direct) Terrorism and the role of Introduction, congratulations and %4 certain governments in gratitude promoting and supporting / %2 it %9 Behavior of the United States / America Iran's foreign policy %43 and the situation of the region and the world %42 As previously mentioned, Hassan Rouhani's informative utterances in these speeches are very close to provocative and emotional acts due to the specific use of qualifiers, adjectives, and parenthetical remarks; however, since they are presented in grammatical forms of informative acts, they have been classified as informative acts in this study.
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