Power and Ideology in Discourse on iran nuclear Deal2015. the case of barak obama's and mohammed javad zarif's speeches.

Abstract

This research examines the covert ideology and power relation incorporated by the President of the United States of America Barak Obama and the Iranian foreign minister Mohammed Javad Zarif in their political speeches about Iran’s nuclear deal 2015. Based on Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the analysis is mainly performed through Transitivity system, Modality and Textual analysis. Furthermore, the analysis is based also on Norman Fairclough´s assumption in critical discourse analysis, claiming that “ideologies reside in text” that “it is not possible to read off ideologies from text”, and that “texts are open to diverse interpretations” (Fairclough, 1995). The analysis leads to the conclusion that the ideology of both leaders resides in their beliefs, conviction, assertion and ambition to settle this long and strenuous nuclear conflict by signing the deal in Geneva 2015.