UPA Strategic Affairs

Yazarlar: Tural İSMAYILZADA

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Anahtar Kelimeler: Armenia,Azerbaijan,Conflict,Discourse,Nagorno,Arabakh.

Özet:  Close to the end of 2020, the nominal ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan broke and the clashes turned into a large-scale warfare. While this development was portrayed as unexpected by some, an inquiry into discourses may prove the opposite. This article therefore aims to reveal the changes in Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s discourses on the Armenia-Azerbaijan relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict throughout his administration. Two periods, 2003–2018 and 2018–2020, are compared as there occurred significant changes on the both sides to the conflict. The author uses politolinguistic discourse analysis to qualitatively analyze nominations, predications, and argumentations employed by Aliyev. The findings have shown that Aliyev has diversified both nominations and predications and put forward more arguments that signaled continuation of enmity and escalation of the conflict since 2018. This study has been an attempt to fill the gap in the literature related to conflict and discourse at large and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in particular.

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