Title:
A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL SELF-GLORIFICATION IN THE SELECTED ARABIC POEM

Authors:
Prof. Salih Mahdi Adai(PhD) and Asst.lect. Bashaer Jameel Rhaif, Iraq

Abstract:
The current study is a critical discourse analysis of national self-glorification in Arabic poetry, which is represented by al-Hilli's poem ''Sall al-rimah al-‘awali ‘an n ma’alina" ("Ask the lofty spears about our glories)". It aims study to investigate how the Arabic poets employ national selfglorification in their poems in the aim of glorifying their nation through using linguistic ideological strategies, in addition to that to display the most and least employing of these strategies. For the model of data analysis, Dijk's (2002, 2006) model is adopted. Nine representative extracts from the famous Arabic poem mentioned above are chosen and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results of the analysis show that the most frequent ones are metaphor and hyperbole, which are extensively used, while evidentiality and polarization are used less.