A study of argumentative indicators in Chomsky's article "It's the Oil, Stupid!"

Abstract EN

Politicians' success mostly belongs to their ability to persuade their audiences with their argumentations.

The listeners can know the politicians' thoughts through the argumentations which reveal who they are and whether they will convince their audience or not.

Any politician has a specific way to express his own political opinions.

In our age, there is no keeping out of politics, for all issues are political ones as George Orwell previously said.

Any politician is required to choose his words and utterances with great care, for they convey the meanings he wants to send to the listeners.

Similarly, the American politician Noam Chomsky attempts to express his standpoint and raise important points on the topic of the American invasion to Iraq.

The present paper shows his standpoint on this matter through the study of the argumentative indicators in his article: It's the Oil, Stupid.