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چکیده
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In light of the aggravation of the global warming problem and the increasing claims to reduce this crisis. The speeches delivered by the presidents at the COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland were laden with the ideologies and policies that countries follow in dealing with global warming. The linguistic elements in political discourses have a direct and strong impact on society. Therefore, it was found that there is an urgent need to study these speeches ecolinguisticly and critically to reveal the underlying ideologies, policies and strategies adopted in these countries to curb the global warming crisis. The study aimed to ecolinguisticly and critically analyze the political discourses of some presidents of countries at the Glasgow Summit regarding global warming and to investigate the ideologies and strategies used in these discourses. To achieve the aims of the study which were finding out the linguistic elements, exploring the ideologies conveyed by each speech, and verify its hypotheses, two types of procedures have been adopted: theoretical and practical. The theoretical procedures consist of presenting a theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) including its principles, approaches, models of analysis, and some related previous studies. On the other hand, the practical procedures consist of selecting five speeches. The speeches were selected from various websites. The selected speeches have been analyzed in the light of an eclectic model based on Fairclough's (1989) model and De Beaugrande and Dressler(1981) model. The obtained results have been analyzed using describtive statistical tools like frequencies. The results of the selected articles have shown that Global warming has been considered a dangerous process that threatens the entire globe by world leaders. Consideration must be given carefully to this phenomenon. The results showed that most of the speeches of the presidents of the participating countries in Glasgow Summit aims to motivate the countries of the world to reduce global warming. In their speeches, the heads of state relied on reviewing their efforts to limit climate change by presenting their plans and efforts regarding this issue. The heads of state relied on the use of the pronoun I to refer to their individual efforts and the use of the pronoun we to urge other countries to work together.
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