إستراتيجية التكثيف في التحليل النقدي للخطاب : دراسة تطبيقية في الخطاب السياسي العربي

الملخص EN

This study deals with Intensifying Strategy, which is one of discourse-historical approach strategies.

The study aims to theoretically spell out this strategy, then to apply it to Arabic political texts.

This study also aims to find out the means of intensifying in the field of politics in particular.

Intensifying means are various and discourses also differ according to their different fields/domains, such as, politics, law, medicine, literature, history, and so, each field in turn has different sub-fields and/or genres.

For example, in Politics there are different genres namely, presidential speeches, TV interviews, and parliament discussions, where each genre has its own specific features.

Critical discourse analysis pays much attention to this variation of text and genre especially in the field of politics, and therefore, a number of approaches have adopted.

The Intensifying Strategy is one of these approaches.

Thus, it is vital to study this strategy as well as to uncover the means relevant to operationalizing this strategy in political discourse.

The Intensifying Strategy has been defined in this study, in addition to other related concepts namely, Critical discourse analysis, discourse-historical approach, and political Discourse, for a broad understanding of the strategy.

The analysis method adopted here is an inductive approach in which the cases of intensifying will be identified, and then classified into different types, which can make it possible to identify the means and ways of intensifying in Arabic political discourse.

The findings show that there are various means, which can be utilized for intensifying the meaning in political discourse.

These can be represented in different types, such as syntactic functions, morphological forms, lexical meanings, as well as textual cohesion functions.

The study reveals that the most important means are: adjective (often, when it follows certain morphological forms), conjunction, word lexical meaning, repetition, and negation.

The findings also show that the political discourse, specially the genre of political crisis speeches are intensive in many different ways, and the genre/ type of discourse plays an important role in determining whether the text is highly intensive or not.