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Incitement is the act of urging the public orally not to observe the laws or to commit acts that are considered crimes. It is the indirect harm by which criminal acts influence people to engage in actions against another group of people. Incitement is tackled positively in international law and in social and psychological studies, but it has not been dealt with negatively in political speeches from a pragmatic perspective. So this study aims at identifying the pragmatic structure of incitement that is used in the chosen data, explicating the speech acts that are used by politicians in their political speeches, figuring out the pragmatic strategies of incitement that are employed by politicians and shedding some light on its most basic structural components, exploring the different rhetorical devices that are resorted to by politicians in their political speeches, and specifying the functions of incitement that are most frequently used in the selected data. It is hypothesized that incitement is a process which extends over various stages: planning stage, developing stage, and completing stage, the speech act of stating can be the dominant one among many other speech acts used in the selected data, presupposition is the most common pragmatic strategy that is used by politicians, repetition is the most common pragma-rhetorical strategy that is employed by politicians, incitement to violence and incitement to hatred speech are the most basic incitement functions that are used in political speeches.
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