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Presupposition in the discourse of political reconciliation The case of Obama's speech to the Islamic World from Cairo University

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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The current paper investigates the use of presupposition in the discourse of political
reconciliation implied in Obama's Cairo University speech. Semantic presupposition triggers
are identified in the speech as establishing the taken-for-granted human values shared by the
speaker and his audience in Egypt and the Islamic world. Pragmatic presupposition is at play
to call upon the common mental images between America and the Islamic world and hence
setting a basis for reconciliation as something inevitable between the two conflicting sides
(America and The Islamic World)

DOI

10.21608/ejlt.2022.225801

Keywords

Political reconciliation, semantic and pragmatic presupposition, Presupposition Triggers, common grounds, Mental images

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3

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1

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32355

Issue Date

2020-01-01

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2022-03-19

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2020-01-01

Page Start

17

Page End

69

Online ISSN

2314-6699

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EJLT_Volume 3_Issue 1_Pages 17-69.pdf

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Research in linguistic and literary studies

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2,266

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Egyptian Journal of Linguistics and Translation

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https://ejlt.journals.ekb.eg/

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Presupposition in the discourse of political reconciliation The case of Obama's speech to the Islamic World from Cairo University

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23 Jan 2023