TY - JOUR AU - Al-Ka'abi, Hasan AU - Huwail, Riyadh PY - 2023/03/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Racism From Pragma-Discoursal Perspective JF - Kufa Journal of Arts JA - Kufa_art VL - 1 IS - 54 SE - Articles DO - 10.36317/kaj/2022/v1.i54.11698 UR - https://journal.uokufa.edu.iq/index.php/kufa_arts/article/view/11698 SP - 579-596 AB - <p>The current study tries to approach and analyse racism from a pragma-discoursal perspective. Accordingly the present work seeks to actualize certain aims, the most important  of which are:</p><p>1-  Identifying  the pragma-discoursal devices study of racism. 2- Determining  the major pragma-discoursal devices that are utilized for  launching, maintaining and terminating racist discourse. 3-  Scrutinizing  the pragma-discoursal strategies that are employed by racists to actualize their aims. 4-  Investigating   the commonest  pragma-discourses devices and strategies that are utilized in ten  English and Arabic selected Media texts under analysis. 5- Comparing  the differences between ten selected English and Arabic media texts under analysis in terms of the different pragma-discoursal strategies exploited in these texts. 6-   Developing   the eclectic model for the analysis of  the racist discourses  of the English and Arabic selected texts.</p><p>The following procedures are adopted to achieve the aims of this work and test its hypotheses : 1- Surveying briefly the relevant literature on the two fields of this study, pragmatics and discourse analysis in terms of the racist discourse in some selected   English and Arabic media texts. 2- Conducting a comparison between the English and Arabic media texts under study. 3- Employing an  eclectic model that is developed in the present study to analyze and scrutinize the selected texts. 4- Calculating the data  of the study by means of certain statistical analytic means.</p><p>To realize the aforementioned aims, the hypotheses are tested :</p><p>1The findings of this  study aid  the  hypotheses  that are suggested for the pragma-discoursal structure of racism, and  mostly utilized in the launching ,maintaining and terminating  stages of the  racist discourse.</p> ER -