Abstract
Concealment, among other crucial notions appeared during the process of political discourse analysis, means hiding the truth by one of the parties participating in the communication event who intends to deceive the other party. It is either the manipulation of information or changing the truth whether intentionally or unintentionally or a deceptive strategy. It is considered as one of the means used by politicians to achieve certain goals and aims, of them is influencing the behaviors, desires, beliefs and emotions of their audience to their self-interests.The main concern of the current study is to discuss the concept of concealment in Tony Blair’s speeches on Iraq during the time of UN sanctions on Iraq and during the time of the preparation for the war on Iraq.The study is carried out with the aim of specifying the concealment criteria, pinpointing the strategies of concealment used to fulfill each stage of concealment, and finally highlighting the pragmatic strategies of concealment resorted to by Blair in his speeches and finding out which pragmatic strategies score higher frequency in these speeches.The findings show that the main aim of Blair in concealing facts in his speeches is to achieve persuasion. To achieve this aim, pragma-rhetoric devices, as a pragmatic strategy, are highly used and they score the highest frequency.
Highlights
The purpose of role-play that applies to practical usage in communication demands the flexibility of participants' words, generally speaking, the more approximately the activity access to reality, the more interests students will take in .so the choice of roles and contexts become very important
The studies recited above presented the general research for role-play and affirmed the positive effect of role-play, which is proved to be useful in communicative teaching method .The lack of findings on this subject may be due to the fact that they did not give particular illustration for the regulation of the relationship between the teaching roles and learning roles
How can teacher control the procedure successfully? And how should teachers do when some negative things appear? My proposed study will try to provide some empirical evidence for solving such problems
Summary
The proposed study addresses the following research questions. 1). If students discuss in native language without being aware of it, shall teachers correct him or not?
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