Strategic Ambiguity in Trump’s Posts Concerning Iran Crisis: A Discourse Analysis
الكلمات المفتاحية:
Strategic ambiguity, Iran, Trump's postsالملخص
Summary:
Strategic Ambiguity is a linguistic skill utilized by people especially political leaders to achieve certain goals. Trump is the most prominent political leader who used this skill in his posts concerning Iran crisis. For this end, the study aimed to investigate the linguistic forms of strategic ambiguity in those posts and explain their communicative functions. The study adopted Eisenberg's (1984) Strategic Ambiguity as the main analytical framework to achieve the aim of the study. The data was collected from Trump's posts about Iran from 1 January 2026 to 1May 2026. The study revealed that Trump frequently employed implicit meaning and vague expressions in order to maintain political flexibility and maximize persuasive influence. The findings revealed that Trump used strategic ambiguity to avoided explicit political commitment, created uncertainty. Trump also addressed multiple audiences at the same time through using strategic ambiguity. The study proved that ambiguity in Trump's posts should not be viewed as a random linguistic phenomenon. They should be considered as intentional political and rhetorical strategy.
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