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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. |