IS iraq another vietn am? a sociolinguistic analysis of the context of two wars

Abstract EN

A contextual analysis is part of sociolinguistics.

It deals with events which are culturally recognized as social activities .In these activities, context plays specific and rather specialized roles such as weddings, death ceremonies, wars, etc.

A context of any situation comprises different factors such as : (1) Field (the topic and setting), (2) Tenor (participants and attitudes) and (3) Mode (medium of communication and the language in use) .The present research will shed some light on those factors and the points of similarities they carry in both wars, namely, Iraq and Vietnam.