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A mixed-methods approach combines qualitative pragmatic analysis with quantitative frequency mapping. The corpus contains 22 interrogative utterances from Senator Josh Hawley, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, plus questions from Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham, classified into five functional types.","Republic of Iraq\nMinistry of Higher Education and Scientific Research\nUniversity of Tikrit\nCollege of Education for Humanities\nDepartment of English\nSpeech Act of Questioning in Political Discourse\nA Graduation Project\nSubmitted to The Council of the College of Education for Humanities, University of Tikrit, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor’s\nBy\nHaneen Safwan Khald\nSupervised By:\nDr. Wisam Shaher Badawi\n2026. A.D                                                                                                     1447. A. H\n{وَعَلَّمَكَ مَا لَمْ تَكُن تَعْلَمُ وَكَانَ فَضْلُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكَ عَظِيمً}\n(صدق الله العظيم)\nالنساء: [113]\nIn the name of Allah, The Most, Gracious, The Most Merciful\n“And Allah has revealed to you the Book and wisdom and has taught you that which you did not know. And ever has the favor of Allah upon you been great.”\nGod Almighty has spoken the truth\n(Sura: Al-Nisa, Aya: 113)\nTo my parents, who have been a pillar in my academic life through their support, patience, and encouragement, always. I also devote this to my family and friends who provide my motivation and confidence in my abilities. Lastly, I would like to offer this research to my teachers and professors who assisted and provided much valuable information to the finalization of this research.\nAdditionally, I dedicate this work to my beloved family for their constant encouragement, moral support and belief in me.\nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\nI wish to thank and fully appreciate my supervisor, Dr. Noor Arkan Ghaleb, and his very precious guidance, constant support, and academic supervision during the process of writing and completing this research. His critical feedback, informative suggestions and constant motivations significantly worked towards enhancing the excellence of this research. His effort, patience and educational skills contributed a great deal into steering this research to the path of success.\nI also owe the academic staff of the department a favourable learning experience along with their rich knowledge, tips and support toward my academic life. The teaching and mentoring practice I experienced has influenced my academic growth.\nI would like to give special credit to my family who supported me, understood, and encouraged me in my studies indefinitely. Their morality and faith in me have always acted as a strength and motivational factor.\nLastly, I would wish to express gratitude to all the people involved in the actual or indirect manner in the completion of this study. Any help, guidance or support that is provided on this journey is highly welcome.\nAbstract\nThis study investigates the speech act of questioning as a pragmatic mechanism of institutional accountability in political discourse, with specific reference to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled \"Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis,\" held on January 31, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Despite the centrality of questions as communicative instruments in legislative settings, existing scholarship in pragmatic linguistics has devoted limited attention to the systematic analysis of interrogative utterances within the high-stakes, institutionally asymmetric environment of parliamentary hearings. This study addresses that gap by conducting a mixed-methods analysis that combines qualitative pragmatic examination with quantitative frequency mapping.\nThe primary corpus consists of twenty-two (22) interrogative utterances extracted from a publicly available video recording of the hearing, focusing on the questioning exchange between Senator Josh Hawley and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, supplemented by questions from Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham. The analytical framework draws on Searle's (1969, 1979) taxonomy of illocutionary acts, Tsui's (1994) typology of conversational questions, and frameworks from political discourse analysis proposed by Fairclough (1989), van Dijk (1993), and Ilie (1999). Questions were class","cbCaijQJxrBH414f","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijQJxrBH414f","docx",96404,1,43,"English","en",105,"# 1. Introduction\n## 1.1 Problem of the Study\n## 1.2 Aims of the Study\n## 1.3 Research Questions\n## 1.4 Research Procedures\n## 1.5 Value of the Study\n# 2. 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