Amin Rajabi Kondlaji

[ 1 ] - A Discourse-Historical Analysis of Two Iranian Presidents’ Speeches at the UN General Assembly

The present study compared speeches by Iranian President Rouhani, following a moderate political ideology, and his predecessor Ahmadinejad, a seemingly conservative/ principalist president, at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The discourse-historical approach was employed to analyze the two corpora. Other discoursal features such as the representation of self and identity were also inc...