Mohammad Makki
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mohammad Makki plays a role.
Articles
2023 “We were cocked & loaded to retaliate”: An appraisal -based study of dichotomies in Trump’s tweets about Iran Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
The diplomatic relationship between the USA and Iran has long been fraught and is characterised by various conflicts and the implementation of economic sanctions. It can be argued that the relationship became even more hostile after Donald Trump was elected president of the US. Trump’s… read more
2023 “A history lesson, perhaps, for my novice counterpart”: The analysis of (im)politeness in political Twitter (X) Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: Online-First Articles | Article
In this paper, we explore how (im)politeness and face are managed by two top diplomats of the US and Iran amidst an ongoing conflict where both claim to occupy moral high grounds. To that end, 360 relevant tweets posted on the Iranian Foreign Minister and US Secretary of State’s official… read more
2022 Out-grouping and ambient affiliation in Donald Trump’s tweets about Iran: Exploring the role of negative evaluation in enacting solidarity Pragmatics 32:1, pp. 104–130 | Article
This paper explores communing affiliation and out-grouping in a corpus of Trump’s tweets about Iran. Communing is a form of ‘ambient affiliation’ (Zappavigna 2011) which offers a way of understanding how Trump attempts to build alignments with his audience without necessarily directly engaging… read more