Paper Title
A LINGUISTIC STUDY OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EASTSINCE 1945: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

Abstract
“A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick » Saint Francis De Sales The American introduction in the Middle East following World War II has poored too much ink among discourse studies belonging to two schools of American studies’ interpretation (Lomotey, 2010, p. 25). The first one is American Exceptionalism whose proponents propagate a pro-American discourse: “the special character of the United States” (Tyrrell, 2010, p. 1) and its unique mission of “universal redemption” (Gamble, 2012, p. 1). This trend was challenged by American Revisionism; a school of thought that came, in a post-modernist climate fostering inter-disciplinarity, to re-visit, the American historical record targeting “the readjustment of historical writing to historical facts" (1953, p. 7). In this framework, this paper discusses the discourse advocated by the first school (Hahn, 1991; 2005; Taylor, 2009...) with the second school’s postmodern theory of interpretation (Halabi, 2009; Riggenbach, 2012; D’Aquisto, Fowler, 2018….). This paper situates an interdisciplinary framewrk of cultural studies and linguistics as a methodological guideline selected to conduct this study. A synergy of the American Revisionism theory and Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday, 2014) has been applied to approach qualitatively the literature advocating the American involvement in the region then. The application of the framework has led to the findings that this involvement having been claimed for securing stability, was a cover term hiding ideological tendencies for securing its economic interests and world hegemony. Keywords : Discourse Study, Interdisciplinary, Interpretation, Ideological, Re-Visit