A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL SATIRE IN AL BASHEER SHOW

Abstract

The article examines political humor as forms of resistance in the media. This is due to the fact that satirical discourse was a discourse that people used to ridicule and mock their governments. It focuses on how Iraqi comedian and host Ahmed Al Basheer uses his inventive abilities to make fun of social vices by playing with words through morphological and lexico-semantic processes. The nation's president, politicians, and cops are the satirist's main targets. The study found several linguistic techniques, including phonological coinage, new word collocation, blending, new derivation, poetic register, religious register, allusion, colloquialism, and satirical irony, that were used to communicate satirical expressions in this comedian Iraqi show. A satirist like Al Basheer was given the responsibility of exposing the immoral behavior of those in positions of authority. This paper looks at how the Iraqi satirist “Ahmed Al Basher” in his show “Al Basheer Show” manipulate his linguistic skills to achieve his goal as the watchdog of the Iraqi society. Iraqi citizens could at least momentarily flee their troubles and misery through this political parody and satire, and regain some of the lost sense of individual dignity.