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Abstract
The study explores intonation as a means of
persuasion in Iraqi political speeches. The study used a
speech by the Iraqi Prime Minister Hyder Alabadi as the
data for analysis. The speech was cut into (123)
intonation units according to the speaker’s utterances.
The utterances were transcribed with the five tones:
(rising, falling, rising falling, falling rising and level)
marked by educated native speakers of Iraqi Arabic.
Twelve Iraqi native speakers listened to the speech. The
results showed that the rising tone was used more than
the other four tones. Then the speech was analyzed
according to Searle’s speech act theory. The results
showed that all five speech act functions were used in the
speech but there was some preference to use the
representative speech act more than other speech act
functions. The final results showed that the speaker used
different tones with the same speech act. The study found
some close relation between phonology and pragmatics
in the use of intonation in persuasion.