Journal Article

A Comprehensive Pragma-Discoursal Analytic Structure of Racism

Al-Kaabi, Hasan Hadi Mahdi, Huwail, Riyadh Mohsen

2023

Overview

The current paper attempts to exhaustively investigate and analyses 'Racism' from a pragma-discoursal perspective. Racism is defined as a statement on 'Race' and 'Racial Prejudice' as,'' arranging groups hierarchically in terms of psychological and cultural characteristics that are immutable and innate.'' (U.N OHCHR: 2005:4). Racism is based on color, social, religious, cultural or linguistic reasons within society. However, this issue has not fully considered in linguistic studies in general and a pragma-discoursal investigational analysis. To bridge this gap, the present work tries to scrutinize the racist discourse pragmatically, concentrating on the pragma discoursal notions and their relevant strategies that construct the pragma discourse structure of racism. Thus, this paper tries to answer major questions including: 1- why racist discourse devices are employed in mass media Are there any discoursal a pragmatic device that are used to actualize and show racism to answer such questions, the present study hypothesizes that. some cohesive devices compose the discoursal structure of racism including the grammatical and lexical ones, transparency, nominalization that are used frequently in analyzing the racist discourse. Also, pragmatic devices compose pragmatic structure of racism including speech acts, deixis, presupposition, cooperative principles and politeness. On the basis of the questions and hypotheses that are stated above, it is concluded that the racial discourse can be analyzed through ideologies and speech acts, implicature with cohesive devices. The racists can employ the pragma-discoursal strategies that support most devices that are used frequently in favor of racist discourse.

• Publisher: جامعة الكوفة - كلية الآداب
• Subject: الاستراتيجيات الخطابية / البناء اللغوي / التحيز العنصري