Ali Basarati
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ali Basarati is involved.
Article
2023 The pragmatics of alternative futures in political discourses: Legitimising the politics of preemption in Trump’s discourse on Iran Pragmatics 33:4, pp. 505–531 | Article
We shall concentrate on how the construction and modality system of alternative futures in political discourses are influenced by the construal of past-to-present threats and preemptive politics. Using Dunmire’s (2005) proposed framework and further explorations by Cap (2020) on the subject, we… read more