A Semiological Analysis of Iraqi Farmers’ Response to Growing Role of Oil Sector (Almada, Al Sabaah and Azzaman Newspapers as Research Samples)

This research, with seismological analysis and study, focuses on various responses from masses of Iraqi farmers between the years 2005 and 2016, that is, since the talk began about the need to expand oil investment by granting foreign oil companies licenses to invest in it. The researcher relies on the vision of Egyptian academic Imad Abdel Latif, the founder of the public rhetoric field, who himself was influenced by the vision of British academic Roman Farclough, with simpler difference that he paid attention to the power of the discourse of the masses is the basis of his work  instead of the discourse of authority. The researcher has benefited from the efforts of Abdel Latif, in choosing the discourse of workers in the agricultural sector, as a social segment to analyze their discourse. He considers them a mass consisting of two groups that explicitly or implicitly resist the oil sector that dominates the economy in discourse or practice as an authority. The first was before the announcement of the "agricultural initiative" launched by the government in August 2008. And the second after declaring that the response t several levels is divided into other psychological and social responses, and each level includes several types, and we have noticed that the first period was mostly psychological responses indicating regression. For, while it appeared in the second period is the social responses dominated by the call for resistance and overcoming obstacles.