ARABOPHONE POLITICAL DISCOURSE: FEATURES AND SPECIFICS

Abstract

Different approaches to understanding the concept of “discourse” and its features are considered in this article. Also in this study both of classical works on topics of a political discourse, among which ones we can mention the works of the Dutch scientist T. van Dyke, the French scientists R. Bart and M. Foucault and expecially the works of one of the most famous representatives of the “Frankfurt School” Y. Habermas, and the recent studies on the Arabophone political discourse, in particular the scientific article of the Arab scholar from the University of Jordan V. Abdulay, as well as the latest publications by J. El-Ansari, devoted to the specifics of Arabophone political discourse and its dominants are analyzed. In addition, during the writing of this article, we have reviewed and analyzed sociological data and studies that have been carried out in the Arabophone countries on the basis of population surveys over the past decade. They helped us to identify the main characteristics and specifics of the Arabophone political discourse. In our study, we found the following tendencies of Arabophone political discourse: 1) the modern Arabophone political discourse is characterized by a religious brightness; 2) the dominance of the formal component over semantic is observed in the Arabophone political discourse, that is, the the explicit antagonism between the concepts of “word” and “action” is represented; 3) the tendency to theorizing is inherent in the Arabophone political discourse, hence the excessive enthusiasm of using various artistic means, in particular metaphors, the Qur’anic quotations, and sometimes complicated grammatical clauses in the political speeches are noticed.