چکیده

Language, through providing vocabulary for ideological terms, and via channeling ideology in discourse, links with ideology. The present study aimed to investigate the microstructures and macrostructures in the tweets posted by the US president Donald Trump and Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. To this aim, in a descriptive-qualitative design, a number of 200 tweets were analyzed using Van Dijk’s CDA model. The thematic analysis revealed that the topics of the tweets included issues such as Iran’s nuclear deal, reconstructing the confidence of people from America, immigration, the border wall with Mexico, NASA, etc. Zarif’s tweets mostly included a reply to the tweets by Trump or other politicians. It seems that through using microstructures like expressions of persuasion, expressions of attribution, and pronoun which mostly were used to show unity and power, the politicians tried to represent their political ideology as legitimate, and the ideology held by their oppositions as illegitimate. It was also found that Trump tries to use repetition and irony to emotionally involve the addressee. Presenting a negative face of another person and a positive face of himself was a feature of Trump’s tweets, as well. In addition, Trump usually made use of pronouns to show the unity and to persuade addressee to agree with him. The implication is that politicians should be well aware of the way they are supposed to use language. In fact, a politician’s incapability to communicate his/her government’s ideology leads to unsuccessfulness in gaining support and commitment from the world.

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Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Zarif; Trump, Van Dijk’s CDA model, Twitter, Tweet

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Azizeh Chalak , 1398 , Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald J. Trump’s Tweets: A Comparison with Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif’s , اولين کنفرانس بين المللي مطالعات زبان انگليسي