摘要：The present research aimed at investigating the ways in which the argumentative strategies of advantage, disadvantage, threat, reality, and history have been applied to portray the issue of Iran’s nuclear program, actors, actions and events. To this end, a critical discourse analysis approach mainly based on Wodak’s discourse-historical approach was applied to 55 editorials of the New York Times, all dealing exclusively with Iran’s nuclear program. The results showed that the differential treatment given to the issue at hand was in line with the advocated policy of the paper to impose more sanctions on Iran to force the country to accept a comprehensive nuclear deal.
其他摘要：The present research aimed at investigating the ways in which the argumentative strategies of advantage, disadvantage, threat, reality, and history have been applied to portray the issue of Iran’s nuclear program, actors, actions and events. To this end, a critical discourse analysis approach mainly based on Wodak’s discourse-historical approach was applied to 55 editorials of the New York Times, all dealing exclusively with Iran’s nuclear program. The results showed that the differential treatment given to the issue at hand was in line with the advocated policy of the paper to impose more sanctions on Iran to force the country to accept a comprehensive nuclear deal.
关键词：critical discourse analysis;discourse-historical approach;Iran’s nuclear program;New York Times;argumentative strategies
