الفهرس 
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Abstract
Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s political speeches about the Arab Spring. Its purpose is to investigate the linguistic devices used by Obama and Clinton to manipulate the listeners’ minds and persuade them of their thoughts. By drawing upon critical discourse analysis as a theoretical approach and a methodological path, a corpus of five political speeches, three belong to Obama and two belong to Clinton, is analyzed in relation to Norman Fairclough’s socio-cultural approach and Teun A van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach to critical discourse analysis. The results of the study reveal that the linguistic devices of transitivity, active and passive voice, and nominalization which belong to Fairclough’s approach have been used in the selected speeches to achieve different ideological goals. Moreover, it has been found that the linguistic strategies of metaphors, metonymies and lexical repetitions which belong to Van Dijk’s approach have been used to show negative other-representation and positive self-representation. In addition, the analysis of the selected speeches using the two approaches of Fairclough and Van
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Dijk shows that both Obama and Hillary Clinton support the Arab citizens and encourage them to continue their revolutions in order to get their social, political and economic rights. In contrast, they are against suppression and inhumanity of the Arab leaders. They also try to confirm the idea that America is the best democratic country that should be followed by all Arab countries.