GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies Volume 22(4), November 2022 http://doi.org/10.17576/gema-2022-2204-11 eISSN: 2550-2131
ISSN: 1675-8021 199 more investigation with regards to the context of speech 5 (refer to appendix Band the background information about the speaker and the argument under discussion. At that time, there was a conflict between al-Maliki and the House of Representatives specifically about the endorsement of the budget, which had caused that period to be filled with mutual accusations between the political parties. Accordingly, we can infer the following unexpressed premise whoever opposes the budget endorsement is attempting to undermine the political process.
Henceforth, the illocutionary force at the textual level is different from the illocutionary force at the sentence level as al-Maliki indirectly accused some of his opponents of destroying the political process. Therefore, the illocutionary act of this fallacy is presented in table 9. TABLE 9. The illocutionary force of the fallacy of unclarity
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