مقاربة تداولية للخطاب السياسي المعاصر في لبنان؛ بناء على خطاب اثنين من السياسيين

A Pragmatic Approach to Contemporary Political Discourse in Lebanon; Based on the Speech of Two Politicians

Art as an aesthetic trend is a means of pleasure to the endpoint audience; however, at the same time it is a way to convince the audience and satisfy them as the artist tries to utilize existing means to internalize goals that are manifested in the work in the mind of the audience. Therefore, art cannot be limited to visual or abstract music effects, but can be regarded as an artistic effect of every political speech or scientific theory that contains artistic elements. This article aims at analyzing political speech based on verbal techniques. Two Lebanese political figures were chosen among the Lebanese Society: Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and the Speaker of Lebanese Parliament/head of the Amal Movement, Nabih Berri, who are known for using the closest ways to connect with and convince endpoint audience. This way, the introduction, body, and concluding remarks in the speeches of these two leaders contain elements which are worth analyzing aesthetically. The results showed that the introduction, body and conclusion of their speeches have discoursal elements including the use of persuasion strategies and psychological effects that are related to the audience and convinces them, that help the two leaders to influence the audience by their words.